THE BLOOD COUNTESS
a film by Ulrike Ottinger
World Premiere: Berlinale Special Gala 2026
Feature Film | Austria / Luxembourg / Germany | 119 min
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.
| Directed by | Ulrike Ottinger |
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| Written by | Ulrike Ottinger |
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| With | Isabelle Huppert, Birgit Minichmayr, Thomas Schubert, Lars Eidinger, André Jung, Marco Lorenzini, Maresi Riegner, Tom Neuwirth aka Conchita Wurst, Karl Markovics, Felix Oitzinger, Inge Maux, Branko Samarowski, Karl Fischer, Helmut Bohatsch & Burghart Klaußner |
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| Dialogues | Elfriede Jelinek, Ulrike Ottinger |
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| Camera | Martin Gschlacht |
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| Editor | Pia Dumont |
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| Score | Wolfgang Mitterer |
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| Sound | Marc Thill |
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| Production Design | Christina Schaffer |
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| Costume Design | Jorge Jara Guarda |
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| Make Up Design | Tünde Kiss-Benke |
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| Head of Project | Konstantin J. Müller |
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| Line Producer | Philipp Grandits |
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| Casting | Eva Roth, Bady Minck |
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| Supported by | Austrian Film Institute, ÖFI+, Film Fund Luxembourg, Film Fund Vienna, ORF Film / TV Agreement, Filmstiftung NRW, ZDF / Arte, MBB, Lower Austria, Media Creative Europe, Venice Production Bridge |
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| Producers | Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Bady Minck, Bettina Brokemper |
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| Production | AMOUR FOU Vienna, AMOUR FOU Luxembourg, Heimatfilm |
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| Co-Production | Ulrike Ottinger Filmproduktion |
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| Worldsales | Magnify |
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| Distribution Austria | Filmladen |
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| Distribution Luxemboug | AMOUR FOU Luxembourg |
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| Distribution Germany | Neue Visionen |
