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Vampyros Lesbos - Erbin des Dracula (1970)
Country of Origin: West
Germany / Spain
Year of Production: 1970
Running Times: 74m 26 sec (Spain video (as Las vampiras))
85m 01s (Germany video) 85m 29s (UK
video / DVD (Second Sight) / German DVD) 85m 41s (UK
video (Redemption) / Germany video) 89m 19s (USA DVD)
Format: Eastmancolor 35mm
Ratio: 1.66:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
 PRODUCTION
Production Company: CCC Kunstfilm Studio / Fénix, Cooperativa Cinematográfica
/ Telecine Film
Executive Producer: Rudolph Hertzog Jr
Producer: Artur Brauner, Arturo Marcos
Production Manager: Karl Heinz Mannchen
SCRIPT
Script: Jesus Franco,
Jaime Chávarri
Story: Jesus Franco
DIRECTION
Director: Franco Manera
(real name: Jesus Franco)
Assistant Directors: Ani Settimo de Esteva, Rudolf Hertzog, Nicole
Guettard (uncredited)
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Manuel Merino
Assistant Director of Photography: Javier Perez Zofio
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Clarissa Ambach
Spanish Version Editor: María Luisa Soriano
MUSIC
Music: Manfred Hubler, Siegfried Schwab, Paul Grassel
Spanish Version Music: Manfred Hubler, David
Khunne (real name: Jesus
Franco)
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Paloma Fernandez
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Manuel Baquero
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Karl Meyerberg
MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Nicole Guettard Franco
LOCATIONS
Locations: Istanbul, Turkey; Alicante, Spain; Barcelona, Spain; Berlin,
West Germany
CAST
Susann Korda (real
name: Soledad Miranda)
(Princess Nadine Korody (Spanish prints: Nadia de Uskudar))
Dennis Price (Dr Alwin Seward (Spanish prints: Dr Howard))
Ewa Strömberg (Lucy Westinghouse (Spanish prints: Alice))
Viktor Feldmann (Omar)
Paul Müller (Dr Steiner)
Hiedrun Kussin (Agra)
Michael Berling (Dr Seward's assistant)
Victor Feldman (Andre Montcall on some prints, real name: Andrés Monales)
(Omar)
Jesus Franco (Memmet)
José Martínez Blanco (Morpho - uncredited)
Eva Garden (dead woman - uncredited)
SUMMARY
American Lucy Westinghouse is troubled by dreams
of a seductive lesbian vampire. When she's sent to a remote island
to see to the affairs of the Princess Nadine Korody, she realises
that this is the woman she's been dreaming about and finds herself
drawn into a strange and haunting world...
CAPSULE REVIEW
One of Franco's
best works, a languid and surreal film that seems to succeed almost
in spite of itself. The relaxed pace has alienated many but adds to
the film's dreamy, other-worldy ambience, while the bizarre soundtrack,
also an irritation for many, has since become a cult favourite. Its
chief asset is the glorious but tragic Soledad
Miranda whose ethereal presence lifts the film far above much
of the hastily made tat that Franco
has put his name to. It's very much an acquired taste, but certainly
one worth sampling, if only once.
AVAILABILITY
Germany
Video Distributors: Video Toppic; Crippled Dick
DVD Distributor: CMV Laservision
Spain
Theatrical Distributor: Floralva Exclusivas
Video Distributor: Hobby; VDI
UK
Video Distributor: Redemption (RETN066); Redemption (RETN066A - special
edition); Second Sight Films (2ND1077)
DVD Distributor: Second Sight Films (2NDVD3006)
USA
DVD Distributor: Synapse Films (SFD 0003)
West Germany
Video Distributor: Toppic
Worldwide
Sales: Cine-International
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Spain
Rating: 18
UK
Rating: 18
TIMELINE
1971
July
15: West Germany - theatrical release
1996
October
11: UK - rated 18 by the BBFC (for video release)
November
11: UK - video release (Redemption (RETN066) and Redemption (RETN066))
1999
December
21: USA - DVD release (Synapse Films (SFD 0003))
2000
July
2000: UK - rated 18 by the BBFC (for video release)
December
27: UK - video release (Second Sight Films (2ND1077)); DVD release (Second
Sight Films (2NDVD3006))
POSTER TAGS
A Psycho-Sexadelic Horror
Freakout!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
El signo del
vampiro - Spanish shooting title
Las vampiras - Spanish title
Vampiros lesbos - West German shooting title
In Zeichen der Vampire - West German shooting title
Das Mal des Vampirs - West German shooting title
Schlechte Zeiten fur Vampire - West German shooting
title
The Heiress of Dracula - export title
Sexualite speciale
The Heritage of Dracula
Lesbian Vampires
Lesbian Vampires: The Heiress of Dracula
The Strange Adventure of Jonathan Harker
The Vampire Women
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Macumba sexual (1983)
REFERENCESMAGAZINES
Sexadelic no.1
p.44 (UK)
review
BOOKS
The Illustrated
Vampire Movie Guide p.96
credits, review
Obsession - The
Films of Jesus Franco pp.78-79
credits, review (by Peter Blumenstock)
KEYWORDS
vampires, sex, lesbianism, islands, bondage, mutes, scorpions,
dreams, lawyers, turkey, princesses
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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