EXCLUSIVE: Radu Jude is a Locarno Movie Competition common, and he returns to the Swiss occasion this 12 months along with his newest Dracula, for which we will share a primary look clip above.
Shot and set in Transylvania, the place the vampire fable started, the movie sees Jude embark on an epic odyssey to make Dracula nice once more.
The Locarno premiere will mark Jude’s second main competition outing this 12 months, after Kontinental ‘25, which received the Silver Bear for Finest Screenplay at this 12 months’s Berlinale.
1-2 Particular has acquired all North American rights to the movie and has described it as a trademark Jude black comedy paying tribute to one in all cinema’s biggest legends and that includes “vampires, zombies, blood, intercourse, AI pictures and automobile chases”.
Teasing the challenge as final 12 months’s Locarno Movie Competition, Jude stated: “I’m from Romania. My father is definitely from Transylvania. It’s time that somebody from Romania did a Dracula movie. It’s solely Hollywood that has executed it 1,000 occasions. We shouldn’t let Hollywood dominate our Dracula.”
Within the press notes for this 12 months’s competition, Jude stated the movie “deconstructs the parable of Dracula via dozens of tales – absurd, pulpy, literary, playful, political, extreme, naughty, unbelievable, or sensible.”
He described the tasks as “A movie about cinema itself.”
The movie’s forged options Adonis Tanța, Oana Maria Zaharia, Gabriel Spahiu, Ilinca Manolache, Alexandru Dabija, Andrada Balea, Doru Talos, Serban Pavlu, Lukas Miko, and Alexandra Harapu.
Dracula is produced by Romania’s Saga Movie, with Austria’s Nabis Filmgroup, Luxembourg’s Paul Thiltges Distribution, Brazil’s RT Options, Luxembourg’s Samsa Movie, Switzerland’s Bord Cadre Movies, the UK’s Sovereign Movies, and Romania’s MicroFILM.
Luxbox is dealing with worldwide gross sales. Bord Cadre Movies is the Swiss distributor.
Try the primary look clip above.
