”Dracula” is a titanic satire of art, consumerism and society, a lengthy absurdist epic that is so wonderfully hypnotic the runtime barely registers. Jude holds no reverence for the living or the dead, and absolutely nobody is safe from his ridicule, which allows him carte blanche to do whatever he feels necessary to communicate his wild frenzy of ideas. As with many of his films, Jude does not push boundaries, he ignores them completely and, in the process, manages to not only show different sides of the same story and our relationship with it over the decades, but also alleviates himself (and any other filmmaker in the future) from the burden of making the definitive version of this or any literary text. – International Cinephile Society
Our film deconstructs the myth of Dracula through dozens of stories – absurd, pulpy, literary, playful, political, excessive, naughty, fantastic, or realistic. A film about cinema itself. – Radu Jude
Radu Jude
RO, AT, LX 2025 | German Premiere
170 min | Romanian, English, German
Radu Jude
Born in Bucharest in 1977. Studied directing at the Media University in Bucharest. Began as assistant director to Costa-Gavras and Cristi Puiu. Shoots short and feature films, documentaries and fiction films, in which he often takes an experimental approach and drastically tests the boundaries of genres, not shying away from satirical garishness. Golden Bear 2021 for “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn”.
Films (selection)
Aferim! 2015 | Scarred Hearts – Vernarbte Herzen 2016 | I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians 2018 | Uppercase Print 2020 | Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn 2021
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World 2023 | Kontinental ’25 2025 | Dracula 2025
R+B: Radu Jude | DOP: Marius Panduru | E: Cătălin Cristuțiu | M: Hervé Birolini, Wolfgang Frisch, Matei Teodorescu | P: Alexandru Teodorescu, Rodrigo Teixeira | V: Grandfilm | With Adonis Tanța, Oana Maria Zaharia, Gabriel Spahiu, Ilinca Manolache, Alexandru Dabija, Neil Young