THE BLOOD COUNTESS

IN PRODUCTION | FANTASY, MYSTERY, BLACK COMEDY | 2025

Synopsis

After ‘The Blood Countess’ (Isabelle Huppert) awakens from her long beauty sleep and emerges from the underworld, she and her devoted maid (Birgit Minichmayr) embark on a baroque quest through Vienna to recover the red elixir of life. The book, if found and read by the vampire’s enemies, threatens their vampire realm... Hot on their heels are a vegetarian nephew (Thomas Schubert), his psychotherapist (Lars Eidinger), two vampirologists, a police inspector, and more lively characters in this twisted and humorous vampire tale.

Credits

DIRECTED BY: Ulrike Ottinger (TICKET OF NO RETURN, FREAK ORLANDO)

PRODUCERS: Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu (INGEBORG BACHMANN – JOURNEY INTO THE DESERT), Bady Minck (HINTERLAND), and Bettina Brokemper (EP on THE DEVIL'S BATH; co-pro MELANCHOLIA, NYMPHOMANIAC).

CAST: Isabelle Huppert, Birgit Minichmayr (DAUGHTERS, DOWNFALL, THE WHITE RIBBON), Lars Eidinger (DYING, PERSONAL SHOPPER), Thomas Schubert (AFIRE) and André Jung (THE FORGER)