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Radu Jude

Dracula

Director Radu Jude Music (original) Wolfgang Frisch, Hervé Birolini, Matei Teodorescu Cast Adonis Tanța, Gabriel Spahiu, Oana Mardare

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Edition 2025
170' - 2025 - Comedy, Horror - Format: DCP - Dialogue: German, English, Romanian

Make Dracula Great Again! Fearless director Radu Jude's Dracula is an unruly mega-satire and a ravenous, many-headed monster of a film. Brace yourself for a chaotic, ironic riff on Vlad the Impaler bursting with ideas (and dick jokes). Vampire and A.I. cross paths as the ultimate bloodsuckers in Jude's latest mercilessly funny and radical commentary on the absurdity of modern life.

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Thursday October
21:45 Sphinx 1 Subtitles: English
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Sunday October
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21:45 Sphinx 1 Subtitles: English
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Monday October
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20:00 Sphinx 3 Subtitles: English
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Wednesday October
22:00 Sphinx 3 Subtitles: English
A flamboyant director is at his wit’s end: he wants to make a film about Dracula but is paralyzed by writer’s block. Salvation comes in the form of a shiny new toy: Dr. AI Judex 0.0, a generative A.I. that dutifully spits out “brilliant” ideas. Soon his vampire movie veers wildly into detours featuring Murnau, Ceaușescu, and an orchard of dildos. In his latest work, Romanian master-provocateur Radu Jude embraces bad taste with abandon, barely bothering to frame his shots. Yet this anarchic stew morphs—unsurprisingly in his hands—into a layered reflection on nationalist mythmaking, capitalism, and, inevitably, the state of cinema itself. Jude even calls it his “first audience film,” proudly noting it’s packed with violence, heteronormative sex, and dumb jokes. Nobody does it quite like Radu Jude.

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Credits

Directors

Radu Jude

Music (original)

Wolfgang Frisch, Hervé Birolini, Matei Teodorescu

Sound Designer

Sebastian Zsemlye

Cast

Adonis Tanța, Gabriel Spahiu, Oana Mardare

Scenario

Radu Jude

Director of Photography

Marius Panduru

Editors

Cătălin Cristuțiu

Producers

Alexandru Teodorescu, Rodrigo Teixeira

Production studios

Saga Film, RT Features, Nabis Filmgroup

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Dialogue

German, English, Romanian

Countries of production

Romania, Austria, Brazil, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Luxemburg

Screenplay based on

"Dracula" (Bram Stoker)

Year

2025

Filmography

Radu Jude

The Tube with a Hat (short, 2006), Alexandra (short, 2006), In the Morning (short, 2007), The Happiest Girl in the World (2009), A Film for Friends (2011), Everybody in Our Family (2012), Shadow of a Cloud (short, 2013), It Can Pass Through the Wall (short, 2014), Scurt/4: Istorii de inimã neagrã (2014), Aferim! (2015), Scarred Hearts (2016), The Dead Nation (2017), The Marshal's Two Executions (short, 2018), "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians" (2018), A pedepsi, a supraveghea (short, 2019), O fabula (short, 2020), Nu stiu (short, 2020), Stimati oeameni de cultura (short, 2020), The Exit of Trains (2020), Uppercase Print (2020), Caricaturana (short, 2021), Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021), Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023), Greetings from Crîngasi (short, 2023), Eight Postcards from Utopia (2024), Sleep #2 (2024), Kontinental '25 (2025), Dracula (2025)

Technical Specs

Format
DCP