The Chronicles of the Counts Dracula-Cardie. Adapted from Baron Olshevris novel «Vampires»

The Chronicles of the Counts Dracula-Cardie. Adapted from Baron Olshevris novel «Vampires»
Olga Boyko

Iryna Shcherbyna

Your love gave me back my life… Harry, a young and handsome millionaire inherits a mysterious castle in the Carpathian Mountains. His friends, James, Captain Wright, Georges and a specially hired librarian Karl Ivanovich help him to deal with the numerous papers, letters and diaries, which take our heroes into the past. Archival search is necessary not only for entering into the rights of inheritance, but also to understand the causes of the outbreak of the epidemic of deaths in the castle.

The Chronicles of the Counts Dracula-Cardie

Adapted from Baron Olshevris novel "Vampires"

Olga Boyko

Iryna Shcherbyna

Translator Alla Shvydchenko

Translator Peter Arhipov

Translator Ksenia Budaeva

© Olga Boyko, 2017

© Iryna Shcherbyna, 2017

© Alla Shvydchenko, translation, 2017

© Peter Arhipov, translation, 2017

© Ksenia Budaeva, translation, 2017

ISBN 978-5-4485-2731-9

Created with Ridero smart publishing system

OPENING TO EACH EPISODE

Glimpses of hooves of the horses galloping through the forest. Again the sound of laughter and flashes of sunlight among the trees.

Blue shards of the sky high above and wistful laughter of the beautiful stranger in the blue dress as she vanishes in the rays of the sun

The horse rears up, throwing its rider off

SMITH

Are you alright?

HARRY

I saw Her…

INT – CARDIE’S CASTLE – DAYTIME

A gust of wind blows across the abandoned halls of the Cardie’s castle, reaching the open piano in the main room. Crimson rose petals are scattered on the ancient ivory keys, they shift as the wind stirs them

TITLE: 1912

RITA’S VOICE

(whispering behind the scenes)

Your love gave me back my life… Your love gave me back my life…

The wind swirls and the petals fall to the floor

EXT – MOUNTAINS IN PERU – DAYTIME – MEMORIES

TITLE: 1770

YOUNG DRACULA (27 years old), the INTERPRETER and the OLD GUIDE stand in front of the cave decorated with carvings of Indian idols. Their clothes wave in the strong wind that blows from the mouth of the cave. The old guide shakes his head and pleads in his native tongue, his very manner indicating that it is forbidden to go further

YOUNG DRACULA

What is he saying?

INTERPRETER

We cannot go any further. Anyone who does will doom himself to eternal torment and bring curse upon his descendants.

YOUNG DRACULA

The main thing is that it’s eternal… Give him a scare of offer some money – we must get into the temple, whatever it takes!

The interpreter persuades the old man, but the latter pushes the interpreter away and falls on his knees in front of the count. He points to the sky, where a huge eagle flies. The old man almost faints in horror, when the eagle rushes down. The old guide covers his head with hands and wails

OLD GUIDE

(in Spanish)

Death, death, it is already following us, and we ourselves are going to meet it.

END OF THE MEMORIES

EXT – IN SURROUNDING FORESTS OF CARDIE’S CASTLE-SAME SUMMER DAY

HARRY (27 years old), CAPTAIN WRIGHT (31 year old), JAMES (30 years old) and GEORGES (20 years old) rush on horses across the forest. The riders sweep past a Hunting House.

EXT-IN THE SKY OVER THE CASTLE FOREST-SAME SUMMER DAY

From above an EAGLE flies and looks down: there is a valley with a lake below. On one side of the valley there is a gloomy medieval Cardie’s castle, and a bit away from the valley, in the lowland of the forest, there is a Hunting House.