After a 20-year absence and a successful revolution in Cuba, comrade Fábián returns to Budapest as a national hero, to serve as the poster boy for a nation-wide blood donation drive. Strangely, Fábián doesn't seem to have aged a single day. The Hungarian secret service shadows him diligently, believing the returnee has discovered the secret to eternal life – but is Fábián really a vampire?
With a healthy dose of humour and many an allusion to the vampire film genre, Márk Bodzsár examines the myth of eternal communism, blending spy thriller tropes and themes of female empowerment into a refreshing genre cocktail that even Dracula would choose over virgin blood.
COMRADE DRAKULICH (DRAKULICS ELVTÁRS)
Hungary 2019
95 min, DCP, colour / hun, rus, vie OV with English subtitles
Director: Márk Bodzsár
Script: Márk Bodzsár
Camera: Dániel Reich
Cast: Lili Walters, Zsolt Nagy, Ervin Nagy, Szabolcs Thuróczy, Móni Balsai, Alexandra Borbély
FSK: n/a
Picture: DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum
Tuesday, 15.09.2020 8:00 pm, Caligari FilmBühne Wiesbaden, OV with English subtitles (Tickets)