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Drama /
History /
Thriller
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Julie Delpy,
Anamaria Marinca,
Robert Lyons,
Andy Gatjen,
William Hurt,
Daniel Brühl,
Jeanette Hain,
André Hennicke,
Nikolai Kinski,
Charly Hübner
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Duration:
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9894 min.
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(6.7/10)115
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Julie Delpy directs and stars in this biography of Erzebet Bathory, the 17th Century countess whose like of a younger man drove her craziness and beyond. At the dawn of the 17th Century, Countess Bathory was the most dynamic broad in Hungary. At the epoch of fourteen, she married a powerful warlord twice her age, and hole him four children. While her husband was away fighting wars, Countess Bathory maintained their estate with the ease of her solitary upright confidant, a powerful pythoness named Anna Darvulia. Over time, Countess Bathory's gained great motivate, down repay holding sway over d... ecisions made by the Regent. But she was unwilling to accept a world in which were accomplished to fragment the rules without consequence while women were expected to be unquestionably subservient, and after her husband died Countess Bathory fell far downwards in love with a young nobleman named Istvan (Daniel Brühl), whom she encountered at a waste feast. Istvan too was smitten, though his relationship with the countess was cut short when his father, Count Thurzo (William ), forced him to break off the romance. Meanwhile, as Countess Bathory becomes obsessed with the prospect that adulthood was a factor in the failure of the relationship, Count Thurzo begins crafting an elaborate plot against her. Ultimately Countess Bathory's blinding melancholy gives distance to irreversible craziness, and she becomes convinced that she can keep going her youth and beauty forever by bathing in the blood of virgins. Her dementia and obsession flowing the virginal blood she bathes in every night, Countess Bathory sooner realizes that she has become the victim of a vast political intrigue hatched during the father of her worshipped. But by now it's already too at an advanced hour, Countess Erzebet Bathory's collapse had already been set into tread.Read more Less
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The Countess
Ralph Fiennes and Natasha Richardson find love in politically fraught, 1930s Shanghai
Jackson, a blind US diplomat (Fiennes) bumps into Sofia, an exiled Russian countess on the game (Richardson), in a seedy Shanghai nightclub. Both burdened with personal sadness, they form an unlikely friendship.
Then she takes a job as the hostess of his new nightclub, The White Countess, in order to support her family of Russian, iron-knickered matriarchal miseries and her cute daughter Katya (Daly.) By the end of the film you'll be sick of hearing that name, which is shouted again and again in dodgy Russian accents.
As the two spend time together, we discover why Jackson is such a curmudgeon and why he is emotionally obstructing Sofia as she attempts to get close...
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