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The Countess

2009

In 17th-century Hungary, the powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory, spurned in love and terrified of aging, descends into the mad belief that the blood of young women can preserve her beauty. Julie Delpy's chilling historical drama of the legendary Blood Countess.

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