Country: Spain, France
Year: 2013
Duration: 148'
Casanova’s last days: the debauchery and the elegant atmosphere of the Swiss chateau where he used to live are now behind him, as he finds himself lost and alienated, wandering through the sparse and eerie countryside of northern Europe. A disquieting presence is looming over this leading figure of a faded time: the apparition of Count Dracula, whose mysterious figure embodies the violence and the occult and nocturnal fascination of the era about to begin.
Biography
film director
Albert Serra
(Banyoles, Spain, 1975) is a Catalan artist and director. Having studied philosophy and literature, he wrote plays and produced different video works. He gained an international recognition in 2016 with his first long feature, Honor of the Knights, a free adaptation of Don Quijote which was selected at Cannes' Directors Fortnight and won Best Film award at TFF. For his second film, Birdsong (2008), he took inspiration in a traditional Catalan Christmas song: this film too premiered at Directors Fortnight, and then was selected in many film festival among which TFF. In 2013, the Centre Pompidou in Paris gave him a carte blanche for a correspondence with the Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso. The same year he received the Golden Leopard in Locarno for his new film Story of my Death, inspired by Casanova’s memoirs, which was then selected in Turin. After Roi Soleil, Best Film at FID Marseille, he directed Liberté (2019), which premiere at Certain regard in Cannes and then at TFF. Pacifiction (2022) was selected in Cannes, in competition.
FILMOGRAFIA
Honor de Cavalleria (2006), El cant dels ocells (2008), Història de la meva mort (2013), La mort de Louis XIV (2016), Roi Soleil (2018), Liberté (2019), Pacifiction (2022).
Declaration
film director
“As I’m not really interested in the theme of Dracula, I decided that perhaps merged with imagery I was closer to, the film would make more sense to me. I decided to cross the initial idea with Casanova, whose universe I was far more familiar with. And I realised how interesting it could be to make a film about night, and the transition from the lightness and sensuality of the 18th century to the darkness, violence, and sexuality of the 19th century, of Romanticism.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, SCENEGGIATURA, MONTAGGIO
Albert Serra
FOTOGRAFIA
Jimmy Gimferrer
SCENOGRAFIA
Mihnea Mihailescu, Sebastan Vogler
MUSICA
Joe Robinson, Enric Juncà, Ferran Font, Marc Verdaguer
SUONO
Joan Pons, Jordi Ribas
INTERPRETE
Vincenç Altaió, Clara Visa, Noelia Rodenas, Montse Triola, Eliseu Huertas, Lluís Serrat
PRODUTTORI
Thierry Lounas, Albert Serra, Montse Triola
PRODUZIONE
Andergraun Films, Capricci Films
COPRODUZIONE
Televisio de Catalunya
Albert Serra
FOTOGRAFIA
Jimmy Gimferrer
SCENOGRAFIA
Mihnea Mihailescu, Sebastan Vogler
MUSICA
Joe Robinson, Enric Juncà, Ferran Font, Marc Verdaguer
SUONO
Joan Pons, Jordi Ribas
INTERPRETE
Vincenç Altaió, Clara Visa, Noelia Rodenas, Montse Triola, Eliseu Huertas, Lluís Serrat
PRODUTTORI
Thierry Lounas, Albert Serra, Montse Triola
PRODUZIONE
Andergraun Films, Capricci Films
COPRODUZIONE
Televisio de Catalunya
