The Chronicles of the Counts Dracula-Cardie. Adapted from Baron Olshevris novel «Vampires». Olga Boyko
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СКАЧАТЬ style="font-size:15px;">      (puts knitting on her knees)

      The brother is right, they won’t find your Heinrich in the Valley.

      The teacher looks reproachfully at his sister. She understands that she is saying the wrong thing and becomes silent. Maria cries again

      END OF THE TEACHER’S MEMORIES

      INT – ROOM IN THE VILLAGE INN – SAME NIGHT

      Karl Ivanovich pauses and puts the notebook down

      TITLE: 1912

      HARRY

      (claps his hands)

      Tomorrow we are spending the night at the Hunting House. It’s just near the Valley.

      CAPTAIN WRIGHT

      (yawns in the armchair)

      Right now I don’t understand anything.

      HARRY

      (smokes his cigar)

      You will understand once a witch gets hold of you.

      CAPTAIN WRIGHT

      (lazily)

      What is it, the Witches’ Valley?

      JAMES

      (takes whisky off the table)

      I thought you knew.

      HARRY

      (blows smoke rings)

      The Valley is located at the foot of a mountain, on top of which the castle stands. In the valley’s centre there is a lake. The lakeshore is very swampy and at sunsets mists rise from its water.

      He breathes out another portion of smoke

      JAMES

      (holds the glass of whisky in his hand)

      It was this very mist that gave rise to all the legends.

      HARRY

      (gesticulating with his cigar in the air)

      In the moonlight the mist takes on forms of beautiful women.

      CAPTAIN WRIGHT

      Not bad.

      HARRY

      Everyone who ended up in the Witches’ Valley on full moon was found dead.

      JAMES

      The lake women drink a man’s life with their kisses.

      Drinks his glass of whisky at a draught

      VILLAGE DOCTOR (48 years old) enters the living room

      VILLAGE DOCTOR

      Of course he will die, the lake water is stagnant and rotten.

      Everyone looks at him

      HARRY

      (makes a hand gesture in his direction)

      Doctor, you may pay for your lack of belief.

      VILLAGE DOCTOR

      (sits down in a spare chair)

      If a drunk makes his way to the swamp, he will either drown or catch a fever.

      The front door claps on the ground floor (sound behind the scenes).

      EXT – VILLAGE INN – SAME SUMMER NIGHT

      It is dark outside. Crickets sing.

      INT – ROOM IN THE VILLAGE INN – SAME NIGHT

      Harry and his guests sit in a room with a fireplace.

      Georges sleeps. Karl Ivanovich looks into the notebook

      KARL IVANOVICH

      (rearranges his glasses and reads)

      It was only after he regained consciousness that we were able to pry open his fingers. There was the medallion of Holy Virgin.

      HARRY

      I guess we have missed something, haven’t we?

      KARL IVANOVICH

      Yes, there is a gap in the records.

      EXT – WITCHES” VALLEY – SUMMER EVENING, HEINRICH’S MEMORIES

      BEGINNING OF THE MEMORIES

      TITLE: 1852

      HEINRICH – the hunter (20 years old) sits on the ledge of one of the rocks near a hawthorn bush.

      The moon is bright. Mist rises from the lake.

      Heinrich leans towards the hawthorn bush, smells the fragrance of its flowers and yawns.

      Suddenly a gust of wind shakes the bush and a hawthorn branch strikes Heinrich on his chest – in an instant, white flowers cover him.

      A white veil covers Heinrich. The veil shines and in the middle of it a beautiful female face appears, pale and wondrous, with huge greenish eyes and pink lips (Countess Maria’s face).

      She moves closer to him. Heinrich is unable to take his eyes off her. He tries to reach for his medallion but there is no holy picture and lace on his neck.

      The LAKE MAIDEN (26 years old) moves closer to Heinrich and kisses his lips. Everything around Heinrich starts to spin. He falls down unconscious.

      END OF HEINRICH’S MEMORIES

      EXT – WITCHES” VALLEY – SUMMER DAY, THE TEACHER’S MEMORIES

      BEGINNING OF THE MEMORIES

      The teacher passes by the lake back to the village. He sees a white nenufare underfoot, stops, picks it up from the ground, examines. The flower is little wilted

      TEACHER

      How did it get here?

      INT – TEACHER’S BEDROOM IN THE TEACHER’S HOUSE – NIGHT OF THE SAME DAY

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