Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula

Meet the man behind the legend in this true story of Vlad the Impaler, whose vicious and cruel reputation as a bloodthirsty warlord became the basis for the myth of Dracula.

Cast

Rudolf Martin

as Vlad

Jane March

as Lidia

Christopher Brand

as Bruno

Peter Weller

as Father Stefan

Roger Daltrey

as King Janos

Michael Sutton

as Radu

Răzvan Vasilescu

as Aron

Radu Amzulescu

as Inquisitor

Maia Morgenstern

as Woman at Fountain

Claudiu Bleonţ

as Sultan Mohamed

Reviews

CinemaSerf

I was drawn to this film by a trailer in which I could swear that I saw Roger Daltrey (from "The Who") and indeed, sparingly, here he is as "Janos", the King who decides to empower "Vlad Tepes" (Rudolf Martin) to fight against the Ottoman empire and to free his Romanian nation from their occupying y...

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