The Blood Countess

Countess Erzsébet Báthory reappears in present-day Vienna, searching for a mysterious book believed to have the power to eradicate evil. Accompanied by her maid Hermine and her melancholic nephew Rudi Bubi, she drifts through the city's historical sites while vampirologists and a police inspector give chase across Vienna and into Bohemia. Ulrike Ottinger's campy, riotous vampire comedy — co-written with Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek — is a late-career triumph from one of German cinema's most singular voices.