Does she was a real vampire?
I saw the condensation version and that is something that I never understood
shareI know what you mean. I didn't understand why its called Genuine: The Tale of a Vampire. She could have been being as that she was inside that guys house the whole film. I plainly just dont understant this film at all. If anyone could awnser these questions maybe that could clear up a few things.
Why is it called The Tale of a Vampire?
what is the issue with the tribes at the beginning?
What is with the part in which that man reading that book at the beginning and then Genuine comes out of a portrait?
How long is the real version?
Why does the mans house look so wierd? And is it a real place?
It looke to me that some of Genuines clothes were painted on. Is that true?
I would appreciate if anyone can try and awnser these questions
She is a kind of vampire in that she has a lust to feed on blood. However she is not "undead" later vampires are supposed to be. Just loves to feed on blood. As an innocent girl she was abducted by a strange oriental cult that corrupted her and forced her to participate in primitive ritualistic blood-sucking practices. She was later kidnapped by slave traders and sold to Lord Milo an eccentric aristocrat who keeps her imprisoned in his home in a small Irish village where she is kept in the cellar in a glassed in tropical enclosure with plants and trees from her home. She clothed in exotic garments and is fed on the blood of birds, but this does not satisfy her lust for human blood. She escapes and the remainder of the story concerns her various lovers and admirers. She fights her lust for blood but at times it gets control of her and she demands the death (and blood) of her lover.
The tribes are the blood cult who abducted her as a girl.
The part about the man reading the book is the beginning before we find out about her back story.
I have a copy of an 88 min version of the film. I do not know its origin or if this is complete, but a complete version was discovered at the Berlin Film Museum, and a restoration project is currently underway. However, I have not been able to ascertain the time of this complete print, however it is 2286 meters long in a 35mm print. If you assume 52 frames per meter, and a speed of 18fps, then it would be about 110 min long, but this is assuming a fps speed that could be slower or faster, because the fps speed of silent films was different with every film. But it gives you an idea.
The house is real but it is stylized with German Expressionism - an artistic style of the time. It is supposed to be real and the oddity of the style is an artistic expression of the odd and strange life she has led and her strange situation.
I do not know if they were actually painted on - it is not impossible - but they are supposed to be exotic clothing.