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In the 15th century, Vlad Dracula is the Prince of Wallachia and Transylvania.As a child, he was a royal ward of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and was trained to be a soldier in Sultan's elite janissary corps, where he became their most feared warrior, earning the moniker "Vlad the Impaler, Son of the Dragon", but became sickened by his own actions and abandoned his past.
Mehmed's forces reach the port city of Nicopolis; an epic battle along the Danube River looms, and Vlad has the upper hand. In a flashback, Radu and his brother Vlad the Impaler are being raised by Murad II in Constantinople to ensure that their father Vlad II Dracul doesn't join forces with Hungary to fight against Ottomans.
A rarely-seen Turkish film based on the 1928 novel Kazıklı Voyvoda (Impaler Voivode) by Ali Riza Seyfi, which is more or less a translation of Stoker's novel. Both the novel and the film make an explicit connection with the historical Vlad the Impaler. This is possibly the first film to depict Dracula with elongated canines. The Return of Dracula
In 2022, he portrayed Dimitrie (right hand of Vlad the Impaler) in the Netflix original docudrama Rise of Empires: Ottoman. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] [ 1 ] [ 4 ] That same year, he co-starred with Frida Gustavsson , Stuart Martin and David Morrissey in Italian movie Dampyr .
Based on Vlad the Impaler, the real-life Romanian prince with a thirst for bloody warfare, Stoker's Count Dracula is a far cry from Byron's sexy, womanizing vampire. ... In 2019, the movie was ...
No wonder he was the inspiration for Dracula.
These characters can easily become caricatures, growling for gore and calling down vengeance from heaven. But the excellent cast and ferocious battle scenes make for one of the best war movies to hit TV in a while." [3] Ryan Cracknell of the Apollo Movie Guide wrote, Dracula: The Dark Prince is a welcome extension of the Dracula brand. Unlike ...
In Anno Dracula, an alternative history novel series by Kim Newman, where Count Dracula won and spread vampirism across the world—in Dracula Cha Cha Cha, Count Dracula's first wife is mentioned as "Elisabeta of Transylvania"; [130] the name was taken from this film version (Vlad the Impaler's first wife's name is unknown historically). [131]