While Julie Delply’s The Countess actually received some good words out of the Berlin International Film Festival in February a domestic studio has yet to pick it up for theatrical release as it is already planned to hit German theaters in June and, according to IMDb, Netherlands in August. However, that isn’t stopping a new promo trailer for the film centered on the notorious Countess Erzebet Bathory as played by Delpy in a film she wrote and is directing from hitting the Internet.
Along with Delpy the film co-stars Daniel Brühl, Anamaria Marinca and William Hurt as Gyorgy Thurzo and tells the true story of Countess Bathory born in 1560. At the age of 14, she married a powerful warlord, 10 years her senior. Although their relationship became cold and distant she bore him four children. While he was away fighting wars, she kept up their estate with the help of her confidant, the witch Anna Darvulia (Marinca), becoming increasingly powerful. She was feared, admired and loathed by many even the King had to obey her wishes. After her husband died, she met a handsome young man. They fell passionately in love. However, she was desperately concerned that she was not young enough to keep him. For 12 years, she waited for his return and in mad desperation, began to bathe in the blood of virgins, convinced that it would provide her with eternal youth and beauty, setting in motion the chain of bloody and treacherous events that led to her demise.
Check out the trailer below that comes to us via You Tube.
