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Plot. In 1462, Vlad Dracula returns from a victory in his campaign against the Ottoman Empire to find his beloved wife Elisabeta has committed suicide after his enemies falsely reported his death. A priest of the Romanian Orthodox Church tells him that his wife's soul is damned to Hell for committing suicide.
Annie Ball, Cahit Irgat, Ayfer Feray. A rarely-seen Turkish film based on the 1928 novel Kazıklı Voyvoda (Impaler Voivode) by Ali Riza Seyfi, which is more or less a translation of Stoker's novel. Both the novel and the film make an explicit connection with the historical Vlad the Impaler.
My favourite books about both Dracula the vampire and Vlad the Impaler, the historical figure who allegedly inspired him.
Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American writer and filmmaker. In a career spanning more than six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II. [1]
Vlad's wife was left with his three sons after his death. Mihnea, the eldest, was from his first marriage. He had two sons by his Hungarian wife -- Vlad, and a second whose name is unknown. Only Mihnea succeeded in gaining the Wallachian throne and ruled from 1508 to 1509.
Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence – Click to see the review and more books in the category. Historical Fiction Epistolary Novels. Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer- Click to see the review and more books in the category. Mystery Thriller Epistolary Novels.
September 14, 2024 10:41am. 'Traumnovelle' Courtesy Oldenburg Film Festival. It takes, to use a precise technical term, chutzpah, for a filmmaker to adapt the same source material as Stanley ...
