Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
“我们无法选择自己生活的时代，我们唯一的选择就是如何回应”
绥靖政策竟有此大用，请已经狗带的丘吉尔同志和苏维埃评价下...这片子把各种风景陈设拍得挺好看挺复古，德国小哥很帅，其他部分总有种过家家的文青味儿
虽然我非常喜欢充满史诗感的巴霍巴利王，但这个还是接受不了。。。巴霍巴利王的剧情走向是合理的，这个。。。太雷了。。。鞭刑那段非常好，我以为接下去俩人就唤醒更多印度人一起反抗，结果俩人就把总督府全灭了。。。
剧情非常契合今天的夜宵烧烤暴力事件，结局是男女老幼所有人都获得了枪，每个人都该有把枪。不常见的南印度泰卢固语，抛开开挂问题，动作设计特别有意思而且很燃。每次起跑出拳都要匀速慢镜头特写让人以为动作指导是扎克施耐德。
三星半，扣分的全在政治戏。看完原著马上来看电影，如果说原著是严肃正经的政治辩论穿插少量个人情感，那么电影完全就是纯粹的抒情诗……电影比原著感性太多，所有给我留下深刻印象的段落都是和牛津三人组的过去和现在有关的，车里goodbye和片尾让我想哭。反而是和历史事实本身有关的叙述节奏太过仓促了，书里一番周旋反复拉扯才艰难达成的决定，电影里一句话就ok了，书里严谨缜密的秘密活动，电影也安排的如同儿戏……保罗的政治立场似乎也被改了一点，啤酒馆争论直接把他写成了希特勒的拥护者，一直是一副情绪不稳定的模样，battle那里实在吓到我了，用力过猛属于是。不过帅是真的帅，直接给加一星！感觉原书描述的passionate melancholy在电影中忧虑多思的一面表现得更多。
<大大大>大制作 大场面 大阵容。激情四射。数次 头皮发麻 鸡皮疙瘩 骤起。在印度的英国人，可以平替抗战时期在中国的日本人。
别事后诸葛亮，1938年的德国要干什么，谁能知晓天机？但张伯伦绥靖了没得洗，你一味忍气吞声求来的和平在阿道夫的面前不值一题，英法在苏台德条约中占何便宜？
兄弟俩的恩怨情仇还是很有意思的，就是女性角色也太工具人了……
2个阶级成分不明的主角长着宣传画一样夸张的肌肉，痛殴帝国主义鬼子。不知道英国佬看了是什么感觉。
这一对真的很好磕😍
富有想象力的动作场面，不死的印度个人英雄主义，水火的意象表达还是不错的。但很多剧情可能就是为了爽吧，算是一个抗英神剧了。
and，小胡子的演员也没有半点相似度，就加了一撮毛的戈培尔。
munich the edge of war 2021 proper 1080p web h264
歌舞动作片……主角们的体能真他妈牛，还有这电影耗时快3小时，慎看！
挺好看，给了绥靖政策一个新的解读。不过希特勒一步一步通过选举成为民族社会主义德国工人党党魁，再通过选举成为国家元首，说明那段时间德国民族主义之高涨。细思极恐。
英国总督和他婆娘＝变态公婆
这个电影SB的地方在于傲慢，做为一战胜利国的人民完全无视德国普通百姓的的感受，杀了希特勒就能解决问题吗？
英、德兩青年——尤其是德國青年——在愛國與「叛國」間遊走，本以為會寫得更深刻、複雜，電影中卻把政治演成兒戲，雖然也符合青年空有熱情的常態。
燃！燃！燃！第一次被“无脑片”燃到热泪盈眶，也第一次觉得国产抗日神剧跟印度抗英神片比起来，确实低调克制了许多。喋血双雄，主角光环全程加持，完全不讲逻辑不合情理，一路开挂，两个人就打垮了英国几个团的军力，好几场“一夫当关，万夫莫开”的对抗戏真的有被“侮辱”到智商，漫威的超级英雄也不敢这么拍，全片多到令人发指的特写慢镜头，可恶，被他装到了。
geschwester Scholz Platz和Odeonsplatz😭
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