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Upír z Feratu

Ferat Vampire
Der Autovampir

Czechoslovakia 1982
produced by
Filmové Studio Barrandov
directed by Juraj Herz
starring Jirí Menzel, Dagmar Veskrnová (= Dagmar Havlová), Jana Brezková, Petr Cepek, Jan Schmid, Zdenka Procházková, Blanka Waleská, Zdenek Ornest, Ilja Racek, Vít Olmer, Michal Pavlata, Milan Mach, Eva Horanková, Juraj Herz, Miloslav Stibich, Daniela Vacková
story by Josef Nesvadba, screenplay by Jan Fleischer, Juraj Herz, music by Petr Hapka

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Mima (Dagmar Havlová) is the fastest ambulance driver there is - which isn't always a good thing, because she gets into pointless races with other cars, often much better ones than her ambulance, but she usually wins because she's taking risks left and right. Then though she hopelessly loses out to the Ferat of Luisa (Jana Brezková), an actual racecar, which endlessly bugs her. Later though, Luisa gives her a chance to check out the Ferat while she complains about pain in one of her feet. And weirdly enough, the speed pedal of the Ferat has a weird shape - might there be a connection? Yet later, Mima passes an accident site - the Ferat has crashed and Luisa is fighting for her life.

The next day, Mima is hired as Luisa's replacement and quits as an ambulance driver - much to the dismay of Dr Marek (Jirí Menzel), the ambulance doctor paired with her who's secretly in love with her. Marek tries to find out what has happened to Luisa, but learns she has died already. Thing is, her corpse seems to be gone ...

Marek meets Dr Kaplan (Jan Schmid), an eccentric scientist who tells him the Ferat is really a vampire, driving on human blood and thus destined to eventually kill his driver. Marek dismisses the idea of course, but on one hand, the idea gives him nightmares, on the other, he finds more and more evidence to support the theory - especially when having sex with Luisa's sister Klára (also Jana Brezková) in Luisa's bed and accidently smashing a bottle full of blood while doing so ... now why are there bottles of blood in Luisa's room, unless ...

The day of Mima's big race: Mima seems weak, as if she has suffered from severe bloodloss, and the medication she's taking only supports that theory, but she participates. Weirdly enough, Marek finds evidence that Mima is not really participating in the race, and during the race there are two reports that she has crashed ... and yet she wins and it is indeed her who exits the Ferat. Near the racetrack though, another Ferat is found, crashed and in it Klára ... who turns out to actually be Luisa.

Marek immediately launches a publicity campaign against the Ferat company - and has to later learn that he has played directly into the company's hands: You see, the Ferat as such is only a mediocre car that looks fancy, but if rumour got out it sucked blood, it will add the thrill many people are missing from their lives to driving one. The regular Ferat will of course not run on blood, that was just the publicity car for the race. And why was Mima replaced with Luisa during the race: Well, Mima is at best a mediocre rallye driver while Luisa is top. Problem is, whoever's driving the race will almost certainly die before completion, so Mima had to be swapped for Luisa after the start, but after Luisa had crashed, she had to be swapped for Mima again.

Mima is in tears that she had only been a pawn in the game of the Ferat company, and all her dreams of becoming a race driver are lieing in shambles before her ... so she snatches the bloodsucking Ferat, takes off her shoe and socks to have direct contact to the speed pedal, and drives off, until she ...

 

On the outside a horror film, Ferat Vampire is actually a dark and clever satire of car culture as such. And while the story often borders the trashy side, it's kept interesting and indeed intelligent by a very subtle and unexcited directorial effort, a clever play with genre elements, a love for the macabre, and of course plenty of unexpected but fun plottwists. Add to this an interesting and unusual cast of characters played by a very decent cast of actors, and you've got yourself a pretty good, pretty unusual film!

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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