Story of My Death

The free-spirited writer Giacomo Casanova leaves life at a Swiss castle, and with it the gallant, libertine atmosphere of the 18th century. Together with his new, faithful servant Pompeu, Casanova sets off on a journey to the Carpathians. He spends his last days in the poor and shadowy lands of northern Europe. There his rational thinking and his frivolous, earthly existence, succumb to a new, brutal, occult and romantic force, represented by Dracula and his eternal power. Serra's dazzling, diffuse meditation is a Renaissance road trip into an opaque chasm of depravity in the upheaval of the ages.

Keywords

  • Award Winning
  • Directors Focus: Albert Serra
  • Filmgalerie 451
  • Forests/Deserts
  • Sooner Exclusives
  • Sooner Exclusives: Stories that Matter
  • costume film
  • literary adaptation
  • literature
  • mourning
  • road movie

Actors

  • Lluís Carbó
  • Montse Triola
  • Clàudia Robert
  • Eliseu Huertas
  • Mike Landscape
  • Lluis Serrat
  • Clara Visa
  • Noelia Rodenas
  • Vicenç Altaió

Director

  • Albert Serra

Drama


2h 30min


16+

CA


DE

EN

Spain
2012
Together with his new servant, Casanova embarks on a journey to the Carpathians, to Dracula.

Together with his new servant, Casanova embarks on a journey to the Carpathians, to Dracula.


The free-spirited writer Giacomo Casanova leaves life at a Swiss castle, and with it the gallant, libertine atmosphere of the 18th century. Together with his new, faithful servant Pompeu, Casanova sets off on a journey to the Carpathians.


He spends his last days in the poor and shadowy lands of northern Europe. There his rational thinking and his frivolous, earthly existence, succumb to a new, brutal, occult and romantic force, represented by Dracula and his eternal power.


Serra's dazzling, diffuse meditation is a Renaissance road trip into an opaque chasm of depravity in the upheaval of the ages.

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