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'Vlad epe' is a 1979 Romanian historical drama film directed by Doru Nstase. The film recounts the story of Vlad the Impaler (also known as Vlad Dracula), the mid-15th century Voivode of Wallachia, and his fights with the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and with the Boyars in his court.

Commissioned by the Communist authorities, the movie promoted the line that Nicolae Ceauescu had drawn through the July Theses of 1971, by projecting the image of a strong, authoritarian leader who is right with the people. It also had the purpose to wash the name of the voivode from the shame caused by Bram Stoker's novel. The fabrication of the myth of Dracula is highlighted in the film: it was built by outside elements (on the one hand, the Saxon and Szekler merchants from Braov, and on the other, the enemies of Wallachia, the Turks), but also by the wicked and traitorous boyars.

Cast



* Vlad the Impaler

*Ernest Maftei 'Strjer' Mnzila

* 'Arma' Stoica

* Boyar Albu

*Alexandru Repan Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror

*Constantin Codrescu Iunus Beg, envoy of the Sultan

*George Constantin Metropolite of Ungro-Wallachia

* Grand Vizier Mahmud Pasha

*Silviu Stnculescu Treasurer Sava

* Boyar Mogo

* Michael Szilgyi, captain of Belgrade Fortress

* Pope Pius II

* Boyar Rtundu

* Johannes Reudel, Vicar of Biserica Neagr, envoy of Braov

*Eugen Ungureanu Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary

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* Ottoman dignitary

* Wallachian merchant

* Stephen the Great, Prince of Moldavia

References




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