Dracula - Myth and reality

The horror and fantasy film festival DraCOOLa that was programmed in august 2008, won’t be held this year anymore.

It was postponed for 2009, because of some organizing problems, declared the representative of the Association for Promoting the Romanian Film (APFR), the film director Tudor Giurgiu.

He said that the reasons to postpone the festival concern organizational issues and financial problems.

George Scripcaru, the mayor of Brasov, announced in April 2008, that it was decided in a meeting of the Local Council, that the project for the International Film Festival DraCOOLa was approved and will be financed with 350-400.000 euros.This sum will be sustained by the local council and other sources like sponsors.

It seems that the project didn’t go as planned.

THE HISTORY of COUNT DRACULA

The festival was to be dedicated to the history of count Dracula and wanted to attract passionate tourists of the story of Dracula.

Although, in Romania, it is well-known even in preschool, that Vlad Tepes had nothing to do with the Bran Castle, that he spend very little time in the monument visited by thousands of tourists annually, the count is still haunting the surroundings of Brasov, because of the British writer Bram Stoker.

Bram Stoker, based on some folkloric sources and historical dates, but also inspired by great Transylvanian stories, created a romantic and literary character, a vampire called Dracula, that is well-known around the earth, in hundreds of film and books.

Although, most of the tourists found out already that Dracula isn’t connected with the Castle Bran, and it has rustic furniture, ceramics, arms and armors, it still attracts thousands of visitors.

The film festival from Brasov wanted to make known all around the world this confusion between Dracula and Castle Bran, and wanted to benefit now that it is known as a national brand.

Source: BrasovulTau.ro, translation dracula-souvenirs.com team

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