Dracula 3D
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| Directed by | Dario Argento |
| Produced by |
Enrique Cerezo Roberto Di Girolamo Sergio Gobbi Franco Paolucci Giovanni Paolucci |
| Screenplay by | Dario Argento Enrique Cerezo Stefano Piani Antonio Tentori |
| Based on |
Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| Starring |
Thomas Kretschmann Marta Gastini Asia Argento Unax Ugalde Miriam Giovanelli Rutger Hauer |
| Music by | Claudio Simonetti |
| Cinematography | Luciano Tovoli |
| Edited by | Marshall Harvey |
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Enrique Cerezo Producciones Cinematográficas S. A.
Les Films de l'Astre |
| Distributed by | Bolero Film (Italy) Panocéanic Films (France) Filmax (Spain) |
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Release date
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Running time
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110 minutes |
| Country | Italy France Spain |
| Language | English |
| Budget |
€5.6 million (USD$7.7 million) |
Dracula 3D is a 2012 vampire horror film co-written and directed by Dario Argento and starring Thomas Kretschmann, Rutger Hauer, Marta Gastini, and Unax Ugalde. An Italian-Spanish-French co-production, the film is Argento's first 3D film. While nominally a loose adaptation of Bram Stoker's original novel, it also carries over many stylistic elements from the 1958 Hammer Films adaptation, Horror of Dracula.
During the Walpurgis Night in the woods adjacent to the village of Passo Borgo, located at the foot of the Carpathian mountains, a couple of young lovers, Tania and Milos, secretly meet. On her way home, Tania is chased and overcome by a "dark shadow" that kills her. Some time later, Jonathan Harker, a young librarian, arrives at the village hired by Count Dracula, a nobleman from the area. Tania's body mysteriously disappears from the cemetery. In the meantime Harker, before going to Count Dracula's castle, takes the opportunity to visit Lucy Kisslinger, his wife Mina's best friend as well as the daughter of the local mayor.
Upon arriving at the castle, Harker is greeted by Tania, brought back to life from the dead and made a vampire, who tries from the very beginning to seduce him; however they are interrupted by Dracula's entrance welcoming Harker. The following night Tania tries again to bite Harker, she is close to his neck when she is stopped by the count who gets the upper hand and it is he himself who bites Harker's neck, however allowing him to live. The following day, a weakened but still conscious Harker attempts to escape, but as soon as he is outside the castle a large wolf with a white lock changes into Dracula, who savages him.
Meanwhile, Mina, Harker's wife, arrives in the village and is a guest for a few days at the home of her dearest friend Lucy Kisslinger, who also gets bitten and turned. The day after, Mina, worried about her husband, goes to Count Dracula's castle. Their encounter makes her forget what happened during her visit. She is completely under the count's influence; the count had orchestrated the events leading up to their encounter; in fact Mina looks exactly like his beloved Dolinger, who died some centuries ago.
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