Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula

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Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula

Directed by	Joe Chappelle
Produced by	Avram 'Butch' Kaplan
Written by	Thomas Baum
Starring	Rudolf Martin, Jane March, Christopher Brand Peter Weller, Michael Sutton, Roger Daltrey
Release date(s)	2000
Running time	91 mins
Language	English
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Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula is a film made in 2000. It is about Vlad the Impaler--the historical model for Bram Stoker's Dracula

1 Plot
2 Quotes
3 Cast
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula tells the story of Vlad the Impaler, the historical model for Bram Stoker's Dracula. Vlad is a dispossessed noble, and a patriot who fights the occupation forces of the Turks. Vlad Lidia the hulking Bruno. The King of Hungary (Roger Daltry) becomes Vald's ally and, with his support, Vlad and his men attack the occupying Turks and turncoat Romanian nobles.

Lidia discovers what Vlad does to the bodies of his enemies and she is horrified. When Lidia has a child, Vlad takes control of the boy, and banishes her to a nunnery. Then, Vlad's brother Radu arrives at the head of a large Turkish invasion force.

[edit] Quotes

Vlad Dracula: Bruno, have I told not you I am indestructible?

Radu: You are going to kill me, aren't you?
Vlad Dracula: You are a traitor to your people. You betrayed our father!
Radu: I never betrayed our father! Besides, if it weren't for me, you'd still be in that Turk prison.
Vlad Dracula: You had that much influence over the Sultan? Even as a boy?
Radu: Especially as a boy.

Vlad Dracula: No...no...please! Lidia, come walk with me!
Lidia: I will always walk with you.
[kisses her cross, then jumps]

Radu: Why aren't you afraid? Why aren't you begging for your life, like any other man?!
Father Stefan: Because he's not like ANY OTHER MAN! And I knew it the moment he was delivered unto this world.
[to Dracula] Father Stefan: God save me, had I one moment alone with you, I would have strangled you in your crib.
Vlad Dracula: You...you murdered my father!
Father Stefan: Because were your father unable to pay the Sultan's ransom...
Vlad Dracula: ...I'd be put to death.
Father Stefan: Our God has said to the prophets there would come an antichrist who would promise peace but deliver an apocalypse.
Vlad Dracula: My fight was never with God...it was with you!
Father Stefan: And that is why you are doomed, Vlad. Because you fight all of us. You fight your own blood, your own people, and your own church. Because you are an antichrist, and you are doomed.