FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE THE BEST MOVIES IN OUR VIDEO STORE! Francis Ford Coppola - Bram Stoker's Dracula 

The vampire has the greatest ego of all! Imagine; he takes himself so important that he wants to live forever. Even under the most disgusting conditions: Avoiding the sunlight, sleeping in a coffin, being feared by everyone. In Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula he directs his fist to heaven; to live forever until he recovers the woman he loves. It all begins with the tragic story of Vlad, the impaler who defeated the Turks. He victoriously returns to his lover - but she plunged herself into death, mistakenly believing that her husband had fallen. But those who take their own lives will not find salvation. Vlad feels betrayed and doubts God. He who went to the Promised Land - why does he deserve this punishment from God? Vlad turns against God and swears by Satan and vampirism. Time jump. We meet him again in London in the late Victorian era. Very important for Coppola: We are writing the era of the first cameras and cinema screenings. Coppolas Dracula plays between the London of time and Transylvania. We meet a young lawyer (Keanu Reeves) who sets out to buy a property for Count Dracula. A journey to a dark land of fear. In the deepest darkness he is led to the count's castle. This looks about the way we imagine it, or rather an inflated version of it. Here Count Dracula (Gary Oldman) has been waiting for the return of his dead bride for centuries. When the count sees a photograph of Mina Murray (Winona Ryder), the lawyer's fiancée, he knows that the time has come. She's alive again! Coppola has understood that pseudo scientific vampire films are always overloaded with pseudo-science. These are performed by vampire hunter Dr. van Helsink(Anthony Hopkins). We know the story itself; Mina falls under the Count's spell. But Coppola seems to be more interested in the highlights of the novel than in the structure of the story. His Dracula is a picture film and he wants to be enjoyed in the same way. Everything here is light and shadow. To excess. I liked that!