| Shots of country side and | Folk Music | 00:00 |
| a Cross on top of a Church | ||
| Villagers : | Voice Over:This is the Transylvania of Dracula | 40:00:00 |
| both real and imagined,while the story | ||
| of the bloodsucking vampire is pure | ||
| fiction its based on a man whose | ||
| been dead for 500 years but story | ||
| is still being told today. | ||
| Old Female Villager Explaining | This little Tale… | 01:20 |
| I know and learnt myself from my old grandfather | ||
| , who died at the age of 94. | ||
| And he used to tell us: "You, children, don't know who Vlad | ||
| Tepes (the Impaler) was." | ||
| "How we would like to have a Vlad Tepes (the Impaler) in our | ||
| country nowadays." | ||
| Draculas origins | ||
| Portraits of Vlad and | He became known as Vlad the Impaler | 01:39 |
| illustrations of his punishmet to | because that was the punishment he gave | |
| enemies | to his enemies which has atonished his | |
| contempories and assured him a | ||
| place in history.He was the son of Vlad | ||
| Clips from the movie | Dracul wich came from Dracula literaly | 01:54 |
| Nosferatu | which means son of the devil.Count Dracula | |
| Of course is a fictional character immortalized | ||
| in film created only 100 years ago by the nov- | ||
| elist Bram Stoker.Stoker set his story in | ||
| Transilvania and the name Dracula has now | ||
| become a modern icon of evil,but the count | ||
| cut to Transylvanian Churches | and his medievel namesake have little else | 02:08 |
| in common. | ||
| Capital of Transylvania | Brasov is the main city of Transylvania its | 02:15 |
| old heart is a reminder that even in Vlads | ||
| map of Transylvania | day it was a prosperous and commercial | |
| centre.Brasov sits in the foothills of the | ||
| Carpathians just inside Transylvania and its as | 02:24 | |
| doors of ski lift closing | far as most tourists venture | 02:28 |
| man inside skilift | 02:30 | |
| overhead view of city | ||
| man inside skilift | :When the war in the 15th century in these parts | 02:33 |
| were about controlling trade as well as territory | ||
| so when the merchants of Brasov rebelled against | ||
| Vlads latest trading laws he impaled 40 of them and | ||
| set them up on the hills around the town just to show | ||
| he can drive a hard bargain aswell | 3.32 | |
| All good bloodthirsty start even by the brutal stand- | ||
| house covered in snow | ards of today this reputation has helped blur the line 03:39 | |
| on top of mountains | between historical fact and fiction not far from Bras | |
| Castle | ov is the castle it looks like the sort of castle the | 03:45 |
| a vampire would live in and for plent of tourists it | ||
| qeues of tourists entering | is Draculas castle its also the closest Transylvanian | 03:38 |
| the castle | castle from the book arest which helps explain its | |
| appeal,keep in mind the castle of the fictional | ||
| count is set on the other side of the Transylvani this | ||
| one didn’t even belong to vlad the impaler which is | ||
| a pity because both the tale of count Dracula and | ||
| local woman selling a sweater | real story of Vlad deserve more than just a souvernir | |
| with a castle on it to a tourist | sweater the literaly license of the 19 century novelist | 04:12 |
| was playing havoc with history, | ||
| reporter to camera | Bram Stoker never visited Transylvania he just | 04:20 |
| an exotic sounding place on the map binding his | ||
| memory of the Swiss Alps and threw in a dose of | ||
| medeicel horror just for the measure but succeeded | ||
| in not only creating a monster but an entire industry | ||
| shots of Churches | music | 04:35 |
| town center | is a town from the past preserved | 4.44 |
| like view others beautiful crumbling fading ruins | ||
| and once upon a time witch trials routined and its | ||
| the birthplace of a man whose life indeed helped | ||
| reporter enetring Vlads house | create a legend.The house of Vlad the impaler 04:59 | |
| was probably born is a restaurant now | ||
| interior of restaurant | 05:02 | |
| waiters and violin players | ||
| The Transylvanian society of Dracula is trying to | 05:05 | |
| separate fact from fiction | ||
| Nikolai | we are after a correct perception of both the historic | 05:10 |
| character lending his name to Bram Stokers | ||
| we are understanding of the fascination of the | ||
| cut to forest | western world with Dracula | 05:31 |
| Reporter and Nikolai strolling | nikolai acted as my guide | |
| along footpath | along the Dracula trail Vlad made his name | |
| resisting the expansion of the Empire but he was# | ||
| a minor prince in the whole scheme of things and | ||
| had to flee to the mountains for protection. | ||
| cut to river | Nikolai | 06:00 |
| and the tow men on a bridge | This particular place was in ruins when vlad ordered | |
| disloyal to punishment as a punishment to carry | ||
| river stones 1400 steps up the mountains and rebuild | ||
| the fortress which they did under the threat of | ||
| execution which was impalement | ||
| reporter | ||
| by this time the turks had a healthy respect for | ||
| this most ruthless of enemies | ||
| standing on top of Fortress with | nikolai | |
| reporter | he offered his capital with the gates open set a fire a | |
| and surrounded by turkish prisoners so when sultan | ||
| arrived and saw this sign he said "oh what a great | ||
| man" | ||
| reporter | 06:46 | |
| In Bram Stokers hands Vlad became the person- | ||
| ification of evil | ||
| Nikolai | ||
| they wanted him over the border of live and death and | ||
| see whats there | ||
| inside car | reporter | 07:05 |
| the hard part is transporting the work of an | ||
| imagination to a modern day tourist experience | ||
| nikolai | ||
| This place is populated by bears and by wolves and | 07:15 | |
| by stag this is why its not a good idea to go away | ||
| from Draculas castle at night there are also a couple | ||
| of haunted houses in the neighboorhood | ||
| country side | 07:26 | |
| Reporter | ||
| Stoker created Draculas castle in the high mountains | ||
| of transylvania Ten years ago the government built | ||
| theme park castle | a theme castle on the spot the book describes | 07:38 |
| Nikolai | ||
| Welcome to castle Dracula | 07:43 | |
| reporter | 07:47 | |
| signs of coca cola | one look at the place tells ,me this is no ordinary | |
| place of draculas castle and if the count didn’t get me | ||
| the food definitely would | ||
| inside the castle | 07:58 | |
| close up on feet | ||
| reporter | ||
| The ultimate Dracula experience is supposed to be | ||
| a visit to the crypt | ||
| Nikolai | ||
| descending steps | We should soon find out if the count is home or | 08:13 |
| in his coffin we will find it by the bumps I counted | ||
| aproaching an open coffin | six last time oh well obviously it seem the count is | 08:22 |
| after his beloved or in one of the rooms or hunting perhaps | ||
| Reporter | ||
| The chamber of horrors unsuprisingly appears to | 08:43 | |
| be a little tact the missing count would be were | ||
| most sensible people would be in a place like | ||
| this.In bed with a good book | ||
| Reporter reading | Draculas Voice over | 08:50 |
| Bram Stokers Dracula in bed | We are in transylvania not england our ways are not | |
| your ways and they should be to you many strabge | ||
| things they from what they told me of your experiences | ||
| already you know something of strange things | ||
| end 09:16 |