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Screenplay Julie Delpy
Director Julie Delpy

The Countess

Tagline: She sacrificed all for love and others for beauty

Release Date: 2009-03-13

Duration: 100 minutes

Synopsis

Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), blinded by the passion that she feels for a younger man, succumbs to the mad delusion that blood will keep her young and beautiful forever.

Casting

  • Julie Delpy
    Erzsébet Báthory
  • Anamaria Marinca
    Darvulia
  • Anna Maria Mühe
    Bertha
  • Daniel Brühl
    István Thurzó
  • William Hurt
    György Thurzó
  • Felix Vörtler
    Reverend Matej
  • Arnd Klawitter
    Judge
  • Nora Waldstätten
    Kate von Kraj
  • Jeanette Hain
    Anna Báthory
  • Anna Hausburg
    Kasia von Rosenheim