The Audience Gold Prize in the category Best European, North or South American Feature at the Montréal Fantasia Festival went
to David Ruhm’s Therapy for a Vampire.
THERAPY FOR A VAMPIRE
directed by David Ruhm
Vienna, the early 1930s: One night Sigmund Freud has a new patient on his couch – a mysterious count who can no longer
bear the “eternally long” relationship with his wife. The vain countess incessantly complains about not being able
to look at herself in a mirror, the professor hears from the count. Unaware of the fact that the count and his wife are vampires,
Freud introduces his mysterious patient to a young painter, Viktor, who paints portraits which express more than a mirror
ever could. While visiting the painter, the count takes an instant shine to Viktor’s girlfriend Lucy – more so than
Viktor and the countess would like.
with: Tobias Moretti, Jeanette Hain, Cornelia Ivancan, Dominic Oley, David Bennent, Karl Fischer, Lars Rudolph, Erni Mangold
International sales: Picture Tree International
