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

VILLAGE DOCTOR

(sits down in a spare chair)

If a drunk makes his way to the swamp, he will either drown or catch a fever.

The front door claps on the ground floor (sound behind the scenes).

EXT – VILLAGE INN – SAME SUMMER NIGHT

It is dark outside. Crickets sing.

INT – ROOM IN THE VILLAGE INN – SAME NIGHT

Harry and his guests sit in a room with a fireplace.

Georges sleeps. Karl Ivanovich looks into the notebook

KARL IVANOVICH

(rearranges his glasses and reads)

It was only after he regained consciousness that we were able to pry open his fingers. There was the medallion of Holy Virgin.

HARRY

I guess we have missed something, haven’t we?

KARL IVANOVICH

Yes, there is a gap in the records.

EXT – WITCHES” VALLEY – SUMMER EVENING, HEINRICH’S MEMORIES

BEGINNING OF THE MEMORIES

TITLE: 1852

HEINRICH – the hunter (20 years old) sits on the ledge of one of the rocks near a hawthorn bush.

The moon is bright. Mist rises from the lake.

Heinrich leans towards the hawthorn bush, smells the fragrance of its flowers and yawns.

Suddenly a gust of wind shakes the bush and a hawthorn branch strikes Heinrich on his chest – in an instant, white flowers cover him.

A white veil covers Heinrich. The veil shines and in the middle of it a beautiful female face appears, pale and wondrous, with huge greenish eyes and pink lips (Countess Maria’s face).

She moves closer to him. Heinrich is unable to take his eyes off her. He tries to reach for his medallion but there is no holy picture and lace on his neck.

The LAKE MAIDEN (26 years old) moves closer to Heinrich and kisses his lips. Everything around Heinrich starts to spin. He falls down unconscious.

END OF HEINRICH’S MEMORIES

EXT – WITCHES” VALLEY – SUMMER DAY, THE TEACHER’S MEMORIES

BEGINNING OF THE MEMORIES

The teacher passes by the lake back to the village. He sees a white nenufare underfoot, stops, picks it up from the ground, examines. The flower is little wilted

TEACHER

How did it get here?

INT – TEACHER’S BEDROOM IN THE TEACHER’S HOUSE – NIGHT OF THE SAME DAY

The teacher sits in his bedroom in his house on the second floor. He is about to go to bed.

Almost full-blown white nenufare stands in a glass of water. The teacher looks at it

TEACHER

(talking to the flower)

You are so beautiful…

The flower in the glass begins to transform. The white nenufare seems to move, it opens its petals a bit more.

Droplets of water shine on its petals. Those are either droplets or blue eyes of a woman

TEACHER

(breathing the air with his nose)

What is this, a fragrance?

The nenufare no longer floats helplessly in the glass of water, but sways proud on its high stem, but this is no longer the stem, but a slim woman’s body (aka Countess Maria)

She has a pale face with big sad eyes and pale pink lips. Her golden hair falls in beautiful waves upon her breasts.

Her figure sways softly and with every movement grows bigger and bigger until becomes a normal woman, yet her body stays translucent.

Now she floats on air from the table. The room is filled with inaudible sounds.

Her figure as if floats on air. She comes closer and closer; soon she sways beside the teacher’s bed, whispering something. She leans over him. She stretches out her arms, as if begging for something

TEACHER

(pushes the ghost aside with his hands)