#Bales2025FilmChallenge of May 26: a vampire

Jonathan (Hans W. Geissendörfer, 1970)
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Jonathan (Hans W. Geissendörfer, 1970)

May

26

World Dracula Day

Siring the mortals. DP: Robby Müller.

A vampire for World Dracula Day

This deeply political, unpleasant interpretation of Stoker's Dracula can not not be seen against the backdrop of political movements like the #RAF and West-Germany's youth revolting against the failed #Denazification that the country underwent under supervision of the Allied occupying forces.

Note the usage of colour and grouping of people; Klaus Mann's Mephisto (1981) borrowed quite a few visuals from Jonathan.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #WorldDraculaDay #HansWGeissendörfer #BramStoker #JürgenJung #HansDieterJendreyko #PaulAlbertKrumm #RolandKovac #RobbyMüller #vampires #horror #politics #BookAdaptation #WestGermany #1970s ★★★½