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1) Vampyr
Series
Criterion collection volume 437
Language
Deutsch
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"With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyser's brilliance of achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result--concerning an occult student assailed by various supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside Paris--is nearly unclassifiable, a host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds creating a mood of dreamlike terror....
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Black and white line engraving. Three views of the gardens of Otto von Munchhausen on two plates. Plate VII shows the ground plan (TA in the key), and plate VIII shows a view of the buildings (TC in the key) and a view of the orangerie (TB in the key). Plate IX is a view of the house and gardens of Johann Christoph Volkamer. Accompanying pages of text are in German in a calligraphic (gothic) typeface.