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".
令人作呕，松竹百年不缺可以拍的吧，自我感动强行煽情到这个地步山田洋次不如退休算了
怎么说，没有认认真真去看.边工作时边看的，是冲着野田跟菅田将晖看的.以为是将关于毕生为了电影而执着的故事，没有看完，但似乎是讲爱情的.主要的还是老年的泽田.可能不太专注，所以并没感动到我.不知道要不要再看.看的时候就记住了一段野田扮演的寺新的一段台词：“将来想成为电影影评家，或者就是寻很多钱，将来在东京郊区开一家电影院.”最后也实现了.年轻时我们会选择那个意气风发为了梦想不羁的人.为梦想拼搏的样子是真好啊.但最后踏踏实实一步一步完成自己梦想的人，更有魅力，不是吗？
能够使人共情的片子就是好片子。爱情啊，不一定是选择那个理想的人，而是选择那个自己喜欢的人。梦想啊，不一定在当下就会实现，可能就在生死之间，也有可能在死后。所以，不要气馁……
——施蒂凡•茨威格
7.0 / 松竹 100th Anniversary 纪念作品，山田洋次信手拈来的行活，《开罗紫玫瑰》拍摄失败版的幕后故事。和《电影天地》一样让人又笑又哭，我这一排观众都在时不时抹泪，最后结合新冠还蛮有现实意义的。不过还是很想不通为什么菅田将晖就变成这样一个讨人厌的糟老头子了。@BJIFF2021
应该拿这个电影给我爸看，你才50岁，可以成为任何你想成为的人。山田洋次yyds！北影节last one
看着某个刻薄的短评，感觉像来自于松竹片场的某个愤怒老导演的中国亲戚，这种自以为是和这部电影的精神的对比非常有趣
小津安二郎的场记写了部类似于《开罗紫玫瑰》的剧本，是对于那段黄金时代的怀恋也是再造
野田洋次郎的侧颜真的跟龙平太太太像了叭
不能嫁给文艺青年啊！北川景子咋那么像张雨绮？
这种天生你才必发光的童话剧情看起来太假了，日剧也开始虚无，跟经济泡沫一样
洋次郎的演技看的我急死了。。之前也没这么呆滞啊
z一个被纳粹关押空寂折磨致疯的奥地利公证人，靠着一本国际象棋棋谱进入了这个他原本不屑一顾的领域，靠其坚持也为其迷失。//原作者在此作品后和妻子双双自杀，心境交缠呈现。都是悲剧
不能嫁给文艺青年啊！北川景子咋那么像张雨绮？
根据茨威格小说改编，将故事背景置于纳粹德国合并奥地利之时。在电影中，自称智慧与财富兼具的公证人巴托克博士，为守住他受托管理的巨额财富，受尽纳粹折磨，靠一本棋谱撑了过来。他将对抗纳粹的非人逼问，幻化成一场棋局的博弈。影片主旨正如其结尾所言，精神是不可摧毁的。不过导演并不高明，在新故事与茨威格的小说间徘徊，又过多地让场景来回穿插，以突出主角精神上的挣扎，打乱了影片的节奏，尤其是后半段，显得很啰嗦。
渣男版的家族之苦。年轻时代的人设和现代部分相差过大，结尾疫情时代下对电影院的感触好直接。
在生前完成自传《昨日的世界》后不久，1942年2月22日，他与妻子一起，在里约热内卢以拥有尊严的方式结束了生命。唯精神坚不可摧的知识分子，就这样突然放弃了信仰，令人唏嘘，
原著中没有妻子这个人物设定，茨威格身为犹太人，一生饱尝精神迫害和流离失所。
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