Countess Dracula
Gala Avary Selects • 1h 33m
1971 • United Kingdom • Directed by Peter Sasdy
In 17th-century Hungary, elderly widow Countess Elisabeth Nádasdy maintains her misleading youthful appearance by bathing in the blood of virgins regularly supplied to her by faithful servant Captain Dobi.
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