Dracula cerca sangue di vergine... e morì di sete [1974]

Country of Origin: Italy / France
Year of Production: 1974
Running Times: 93 mins [USA - R rated version] 103 mins 106 mins [X rated version] 108 min
Format: Eastmancolor 35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Andy Warhol presents Compagnia Cinematografica Champion / Yanne et Rassam
Produced by: Andrew Braunsberg
Production Manager: Mara Blasetti

SCRIPT
Written by: Paul Morrissey, Pat Hackett [uncredited]
Character: Bram Stoker [uncredited]

DIRECTION
Directed by: Paul Morrissey, Antonio Margheriti [credited in Italian version only]
Assistant Directors: Paolo Pietrangeli, Antonio Margheriti [uncredited]

PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography: Luigi Kuveiller

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editors: Franca Silvi, Jed Johnson [credited in US version only]

MUSIC
Music Composed and Conducted by: Claudio Gizzi
Recorded and Published by: RCA

SOUND
Sound Effects: Roberto Arcangeli

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Mario di Salvio

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Carlo Rambaldi

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Enrico Job
Art Director: Gianni Giovagnoni

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Silvia Petroni

LOCATIONS
Locations: Vojvodina, Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro

CAST
Joe Dallesandro [Mario Balato]
Udo Kier [Count Dracula]
Arno Juerging [Anton]
Maxime McKendry [La Marchesa Di Fiore]
Milena Vukotic [Esmeralda]
Dominique Darel [Saphiria]
Stefania Casini [Rubinia]
Silvia Dionisio [Perla]
Inna Alexeievna
Gil Cagnie [townsman]
Emi Califri
Eleonora Zani

and
Vittorio De Sica as Marchese Di Fiore

Roman Polanski [man in tavern (uncredited)]

An ailing Count Dracula is so desperate for virgin's blood that he and his servant Anton pack up his coffin and head of for Catholic Italy in search of particularly religious women. He can't believe his luck when he moves in with a family that has no les than four daughters, all apparently virgins – but unknown to him [and indeed their father], the girls have been visiting the handsome and virile young servant who sets out to save the only true virgin in the only way he knows...

UK
Theatrical Distributor: Bryanston Films Ltd

USA
Video Distributor: Triboro Entertainment Group Inc
Laserdisc Distributor: Criterion Collection [CC 1439L]
DVD Distributor: The Criterion Collection [CC 1547D]

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Argentina
Rating: 18

Australia
Rating: R

Norway
Rating: 18 [with cuts]

UK
Rating: X; 18

USA
Rating: X; R [with cuts (1975, 1992 - for horror violence and sensuality)]

West Germany
Rating: 18

1975
November
27: USA – theatrical release

1977
March
8: Norway – theatrical release

1996
June
30: USA - laserdisc release [Criterion Collection [CC 1439L]]

1998
December
15: USA - DVD release [The Criterion Collection [CC 1547D]]

1999
April
5: Argentina – shown at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema

2007
January
13: UK - television broadcast [on Film4]
25: UK - television broadcast [on Film4]

Andy Warhol's Dracula - German / US title
Andy Warhol's Young Dracula
Blood for Dracula – UK title
Dracula
Dracula vuole vivere: cerca sangue di vergine! – alternative title
Du sang pour Dracula - French title
Sangre para Drácula - Argentinian / Venezuelan title
Sangue Virgem para Drácula - Portugese title
Young Dracula

MAGAZINES

Bianco e Nero vol.39 no.4 [July / August 1978] p.159 [Italy]
credits

Cinefantastique vol.4 no.1 [Spring 1975] p.30 [USA]
review

Cinefantastique vol.28 no.12 [June 1997] pp.48-51, 60 [USA]
illustrated article

Cinematografia ITA vol.40 no.9/10 [September / October 1973] pp.41-42 [Italy]
review

CinemaTV Today no.10132 [3 May 1975] p.15 [UK]
review

Fangoria no.149 [January 1996] pp.56-62, 82 [USA]
illustrated article

Films and Filming vol.19 no.10 [July 1973] pp.8-10 [UK]
review

Films Illustrated vol.4 no.45 [May 1975] p.324 [UK]
review

Hollywood Reporter vol.233 no.40 [5 November 1974] p.3 [USA]
credits, review

The Listener vol.93 no.2404 [1 May 1975] p.586 [UK]
review

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.42 no.496 [May 1975] p.104 [UK]
credits, synopsis, review

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.50 no.599 [December 1983] p.342 [UK]
note

Variety 27 February 1974 p.16 [USA]
credits, review

OTHER SOURCES

British Board of Film Censors Monthly List November 1982
censorship details

KEYWORDS

dracula, gore, lesbianism, sex, vampires, virgins

Last Updated: 6 March, 2007