Vampires of Warsaw

Vampires of Warsaw
Vampires of Warsaw
	A scene from the film.
Directed by	Wiktor Biegański
Written by	Wiktor Biegański (based on his own stage play)
Starring	; ; Maria Balcerkiewiczówna ; Igo Sym
Cinematography	;
Production; company	Merkurfilm
Release date	28 October 1925
Running time	36 minutes
Country	Poland
Languages	Silent ; Polish intertitles

Vampires of Warsaw (Polish:Wampiry Warszawy) is a 1925 Polish silent crime film directed by Wiktor Biegański and starring , and Maria Balcerkiewiczówna. It was Biegański's most popular film, and displayed the influence of Soviet cinema on his work.^[2] The film is considered lost, so it's difficult to describe the plot in detail, but the film appears to have been a murder mystery whodunit and did not actually feature any vampires of the supernatural variety.

Actor Igo Sym, who later shared billing in films with top name stars like Marlene Dietrich, became a Nazi informant in WWII and turned in a number of fellow Polish actors and theater owners who were aligned with the Resistance forces in Poland. In 1941, some Polish freedom fighters assassinated Sym, and the Nazis retaliated by executing 21 hostages and sending dozens of others to Auschwitz.^[3]

Cast[]

as Pradowski
as Urszula Pradowska
Maria Balcerkiewiczówna as Countess Tamarska
Igo Sym as Tadeusz Wyzewicz, lawyer
Lech Owron as Baron Kamiłow
as Antoni, lokaj
as Tonia
as Przelozona klasztoru
as Prosecutor
as Lichwiarz

References[]

^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p.294. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
^ Haltof p.14
^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 295. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.

Bibliography[]

Haltof, Marek. Polish National Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2002.

External links[]

Vampires of Warsaw at IMDb

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[1] Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p.294. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.

[2] Haltof p.14

[3] Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 295. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.

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