Vampyr
By: screenplay by Christen Jul, Carl Th. Dreyer ; directed by Carl Th. Dreyer
Contributors: West, Julian, 1904-1981, actor; Schutz, Maurice, actor; Mandel, Rena, actor; Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873
Edition: Blu-ray special edition.
Series: The Criterion collection -- 437; Criterion collection -- 437.
Published: 2017
Language: ger
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 73
Subjects: Drama; Film adaptations; Supernatural; Vampires; Nightmares
Other titles: Vampyr (Motion picture)
Description: A young traveler happens upon a remote castle, and starts seeing sinister, inexplicable sights.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1932.

Based on the short story "Carmilla"  by J. Sheridan Le Fanu.

Uncompressed mono, full screen 1.19:1.

Booklet featuring new essays by Mark Le Fanu and Kim Newman, Koerber on the restoration, and a 1964 interview with producer and star Nicolas de Gunzburg and a book featuring Dreyer and Christen Jul's original screenplay and Sheridan Le Fanu 1872 story "Carmilla," a source for the film, included in container.

Features: newly credited alternate version with English text, audio commentary featuring film scholar Tony Rayns, "Carl Th. Dreyer" (1966) documentary by Jørgen Roos chronicling Dreyer's career, visual essay by scholar Casper Tybjerg on Dreyer's influences in creating Vampyr, radio broadcast from 1958 of Dreyer reading an essay about filmmaking, new and improved English subtitle translation.

Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

This is a Blu-ray disc made for Blu-ray disc players and will not play in standard DVD players.

For private home use only.

In German with optional English subtitles.