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Release year: 1921

Storyline

A girl has frightening visions after visiting an insane asylum where one of the inmates claims to be Drakula and she can not be sure whether they were a nightmare or real.

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Directors

Károly Lajthay

Writers

Cast

Paul Askonas — Drakula
Margit Lux — Mary
Lene Myl — Mary Land
Dezsõ Kertész — George

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Did you know

• Though officially thought to be a lost film, film historian Troy Howarth wrote in his 2015 book " Tome of Terror" that a print exists in a Hungarian Archive, but this is not the case, as explained by author László Tamásfi, who has translated the film's official novelization and various promotional texts into English in 2020, during which he had worked closely with the Archive's staff. He claims that the film's short novella adaptation from 1924 has been mistakenly thought to be the film itself by foreign authors. As such, the film is still considered lost, along with approximately 90% of all Hungarian silent films.

• Contrary to what has been widely assumed previously, contemporary film reviews and the still surviving novella adaptation confirm that this movie was not based on Stoker's novel. It tells an original story only loosely related to the Dracula novel, featuring an insane asylum inmate who thinks he is Dracula and then actually becomes Dracula in a dream sequence.

• Is considered to be the first movie ever produced featuring a version of Bram Stoker's Dracula character since it was filmed in 1920 and 1921, but it wasn't released first. The film allegedly premiered in Vienna in 1921, though no information regarding this has been found in Austria trade publications. Nosferatu (1922) came out first in 1922, while Death's release was postponed until 1923 for unknown reasons.