Late one evening, Allan Gray, a wandering student of the occult, arrives at an inn close to the village of Courtempierre, France, and rents a room. He is awakened from his sleep by an old man, who enters the locked room and l… See more

• Nicolas de Gunzburg (credited as Julian West ) as Allan Gray, a young wanderer whose studies of occult matters have made him a dreamer. Gray's view of the world is described as a blur of the real and unreal.
• Maurice Sc… See more

Carl Theodor Dreyer began planning Vampyr in late 1929, a year after the release of his previous film, The Passion of Joan of Arc. The production company behind Joan of Arc had plans to make another fil… See more

The premiere of Vampyr in Germany was delayed by UFA for approximately nine months, as the studio wanted the American films Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931) to be released first, but the film was still a financial fail… See more