#  CMES Film Screening: Dracula in Istanbul (1953) 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 31, 2017** 

 05:00PM - 07:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

   ![Movie Poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/history/files/drakula-istanbuldagreen.jpg?itok=74mvpspg) 

 

 **The Center for Middle Eastern Studies** presents a screening of

 ***Dracula in Istanbul/Drakula İstanbul'da* (1953)**  
Director: Mehmet Muhtar

 With a brief introduction by Prof **Cemal Kafadar**.

 A Turkish version of Bram Stoker's original novel *Dracula*. The screenplay was based on a 1928 novel by Ali Riza Seyfi called *Kazıklı Voyvoda* ("Impaler Voivode"), and is more or less a translation of Stoker's novel, but there is no Renfield character and Güzin, the "Mina" character, is a showgirl given to performing in revealing outfits. This is the fourth dracula movie ever and the first film in which the count is represented with fanged teeth. Drakula/Dracula is played by Atif Kaptan. Both the novel and the film make an explicit connection with the historical Vlad the Impaler, the Prince and three-time Voivode of Wallachia.

 *In Turkish with English subtitles.*

 **Contact:** [Liz Flanagan](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu)

 See also: [Turkey](https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/research-region/turkey), [Film & Visual Art](https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/research-field/film-visual-art), [Ad Hoc or Co-Sponsored](https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/eventseries/ad-hoc-or-co-sponsored), [2017-18](https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/academic-year/2017-18)



 

 



 

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