1994's Nadja saw writer/director Michael Almereyda follow the advice of executive producer David Lynch and devise a modern day vampire thriller featuring characters from Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'. The film sees Elina Löwensohn play Nadja, the daughter of Count Dracula. Nadja's plans to build a new life in 1990s New York free of her father's legacy are scuppered by the arrival of Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Fonda), who is intent on destroying her and ending the Dracula bloodline.
The original director's cut of Nadja has now been newly restored in 4K and opens at New York's BAM on February 6th. A wider release has yet to be announced.
Check out the new trailer below.
The official synopsis reads:
Merging elements from DRACULA’S DAUGHTER (1936) with André Breton’s surrealist novel NADJA (1928), and fusing shimmering black-and-white 35mm with hallucinatory Pixelvision video, Michael Almereyda’s (TESLA, EXPERIMENTER, HAMLET) acclaimed cult film centers on New York-based vampire Nadja (Elina Löwensohn) as she draws close to her twin brother Edgar (Jared Harris) following their father’s death at the hands of Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Fonda). Edgar’s private nurse (Suzy Amis), Van Helsing’s nephew Jim (Martin Donovan), and Jim’s wife (Galaxy Craze) are entangled in the story as the vampire killer pursues “the fiend” from Manhattan to Transylvania.