The Countess Hey what's up guys. Today I'll show you
a crime-thriller-drama film: "The Countess"! Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care!
The movie begins with count Istvan visiting the late countess Erzsébet's grave at Ecséd.
As he looks upon Erzsébet's grave, he narrates the time of the past when she was still alive.
In 15 60, Erzsébet was born in Ecséd, Hungary. She was a daughter of a noble
military general. On her christening, she was immediately promised to marry Count Nádasdy.
During her childhood, her mother taught her to embrace coldness, cruelty, harshness,
and curiosity in the world. Such traits showed visibly to everyone: She felt no sorrow when
her father died, and even dared to touch his corpse. She planted a chick inside a pot,
thinking it would grow in a tree; but her teacher explained that only seeds are planted in dirt,
whereas humans and animals suffocate when buried. During her youth, she attended a baby boy's
christening in church, and desired to marry him. However, her mother opposed the idea,
for Erzsébet would be too old when the boy reached the marrying age; and besides, she was
to marry Nádasdy. However, she fell in love with a peasant, who later impregnated her. but Erzsébet's
mother forbade such foolishness, and ordered the peasant's death. She had to watch the brutal death
sentence against the peasant; and afterward, her mother locked her in a room as punishment, so they
could hide her pregnancy. When Erzsébet's baby was born, her mother immediately took away the child,
even though it was against Erzsébet's will. At age fifteen, Erzsébet married Nádasdy,
but it was followed by Erzsébet's mother's death. Erzsébet grew old as a wise Countess. She managed
her estate masterfully, and became wealthier to the point where the nobilities and even the
town's king owed her and her husband money. Later in life, Erzsébet and Nádasdy had two
daughters and a son. However, the couple barely spent time together,
for Nádasdy was busy with a war against the Turks army, who slaughtered and enslaved half the
population of Hungary for less than fifty years. Later, Erzsébet founded a hospital for the poor,
but townsfolks noticed that the majority of her patients never came out alive.
Erzsébet was a protestant who believed in heretic theories. She had a claimed
witch working under her, helping with managing her wealth, to the extent that
people thought she knew how to create gold. Nádasdy's deadly military prowess and Erzsébet's
intelligence combined, made them the most feared, respected, and influential family in the kingdom.
After a fearsome battle against the Turks, Nádasdy returned to Vienna,
and demanded the pending payment from the king. Unfortunately, the king lied,
saying they were preparing the money, but they were short of it. The king offered to stay for
a while, but Nádasdy couldn't wait, and asked the king's men to follow up on the payment instead.
When Nádasdy and his men left the king's castle, the king's attendant gave him
a golden chalice as a gift from the king. Meanwhile, Erzsébet played with her children in
the forest, and upon hearing her husband and his men arrive, they excitedly welcomed him. However,
Nádasdy returned home with a disease contracted from abroad, and he died on the same day.
The following day, Erzsébet attended her husband's burial ceremony in the local church.
Later, she went to Vienna with her children, and left Cachtice under the witch's management.
At Vienna, Erzsébet talked with the king, about the court's recognition of her as the
sole owner of her husband's army and Cachtice estate, which the king eventually accepted.
Afterward, Erzsébet visited her aunt's mansion to leave the children there.
She first shared a humorous dinner with nobilities, and among them was Count Gyorgy.
After dinner, Count Gyorgy offered a marriage proposal for her, but it would be improper for
Erzsébet, for she was a noble by blood, whereas he was a count by marriage. Her Aunt then fetched
Erzsébet, and they attended a night ball. At the night ball, Erzsébet met Gyorgy’s
21-year-old son, Istvan. Erzsébet elegantly danced with him until the music ended. There
was this burning passion brewing in their hearts, that led them to wrestle their smelly tongues, and
when it was time for Istvan to go home, Erzsébet invited him to a furious hormone night in bed.
The following morning, the unsatisfied Erzsébet caressed Istvan's hormone-filled skin,
but withdrew her hand when she saw her wrinkly skin. Before Erzsébet left,
Istvan gave her his necklace, and promised her written letters weekly.
For the first time, Erzsébet felt love and hormones, to fill the emptiness in her heart.
Erzsébet returned to Cachtice, and relayed all the happenings with Istvan to the witch.
However, the witch only warned her that a young hormone-rich man like Istvan,
changed their mind all the time, and there was no certainty that he loved her at all.
Erzsébet wished to be alone, and stared at herself in the mirror. She sighed,
for how time has no respect for beauty. Then She received another letter from Istvan.
Not long after, they met again and entangled their bare hands and legs in bed. Istvan shared he was
to marry a Baroness from Denmark, but his heart belonged to Erzsébet. When Istvan was asleep,
Erzsébet cut off and smelled a strand of his hair, but unfortunately, spared his smelly sausage.
A week later, Erzsébet visited the church and prayed. The church's priest thanked her
for the donations, and she only said it was only right that God had given her too much.
Outside the church, Erzsébet waited for Istvan's letter. While waiting,
a young beggar complimented her dress; and out of generosity, Erzsébet gave her a golden ribbon.
The following day, Erzsébet finally received Istvan's delayed letter,
containing an invitation to a ball. Erzsébet attended the party and waited,
but no familiar face arrived. While waiting, Count Dominic spoke to her, but Erzsébet
showed no interest in continuing the conversation. Amidst their conversation, a servant called her,
saying that a man was looking for her. Erzsébet gladly followed and met Istvan again;
but he couldn't stay with her longer that night. but he promised to elope with Erzsébet tomorrow,
and that they'd be together in the coming days. Soon after, they parted with a soft
tongue massage, and left the ball. The following day was nothing Erzsébet
expected. She waited until sunset, but Istvan stood her up. She left him a letter,
expressing her disappointment and pain. It turns out, Count Gyorgy locked up Istvan in a
cellar, because he learned his plan to escape with Erzsébet. Gyorgy believed that Istvan was just
another minion of Erzsébet, but Istvan believed she loved him, and so his true love for her.
Istvan resisted following his father's wish, to travel to Denmark to meet his future wife, but
Gyorgy lied, saying Erzsébet had already forgotten him, and chose to spend time with Dominic.
Back to the present, Istvan narrates that after the separation from Erzsébet, everything he knew
about her, is only through relayed stories. He only learned the truth about Erzsébet from
his father, who was on his deathbed. In between his father's screaming words, he realizes that
what people know about Erzsébet are lies. Back in the past, Erzsébet still waited for
Istvan. But Dominic kept on pestering her, so she accepted his invitation eventually.
They rode horses, chatted, and encountered an elderly beggar.
Erzsébet shouted at the beggar for being ugly, and the beggar responded that sooner, Erzsébet
would become old like her. So Erzsébet punished the beggar in front of everybody out of anger.
Erzsébet returned home in a sour mood. She smelled Istvan's hair to keep herself sane,
and prayed to the Lord, asking why her true love disappeared so quickly.
That night, she cut her left bosom, inserted Istvan's hair, and sewed it close, for she
wanted to keep him forever in her heart. Three weeks passed, and Erzsébet,
the powerful Countess in land, was ill from being heartbroken. Such news reached Count Gyorgy,
and he wished to find proof of Erzsébet's lunacy. Erzsébet finally received a letter from Istvan;
but it was about his farewell for her, and his devotion to his new wife. The letter's content
angered Erzsébet; but the witch calmed her down, and pleaded with her to forget about Istvan.
But Erzsébet persisted that it must be their age difference, that caused their failed relationship.
She even compared herself to the young maid in her bedroom.
Suddenly, Dominic visited Erzsébet. During the meal, Erzsébet got furious when the servant
spilled some drink onto her clothes. Erzsébet wanted to punish the servant,
but Dominic stopped Erzsébet, and instead offered himself to be the target of her anger;
so he allowed Erzsébet to whip him with a belt. The following day, Erzsébet drowned herself with
sorrow again, and thought that the beggar in the park cursed her to be old and wrinkly.
She even shouted at the witch, for giving her ointment that wasn't effective anymore.
Afterward, Erzsébet asked the young maid from yesterday to brush her hair, when she unexpectedly
pulled Erzsébet's hair too hard. Erzsébet's anger triggered once more, to the extent that she beat
the young maid with a brush, and the maid's blood splashed on her face. Erzsébet wiped off the blood
in front of the mirror, but stopped, as if a miraculous event occurred in her very eyes,
because she saw her wrinkly face glowed younger. Everything Erzsébet saw in the mirror of glowing
and getting younger, were mere hallucinations, but she firmly convinced herself that bathing in
a virgin's blood, could help her attain eternal beauty of youth, which her sycophantic servants
tolerated, and insisted that the blood did miraculously work. However, the witch was against
this idea, but Erzsébet continued to harvest blood from the healing wound of the young virgin maid.
However, when her wounds completely healed, Erzsébet ordered her servant to cut her open,
and extract blood from the cuts. Unfortunately, the maid died from blood loss after
many harvests. So Erzsébet ordered her servants for more virgins. Her sycophantic servants
captured virgin maids and maidens in town, and killed them inside a cage with deadly spikes.
This torture weapon design aimed to impale maidens' bodies, without wasting too much blood.
Back to the present time, Istvan tells everyone that despite his numerous letters
sent to Erzsébet, he never received one from her. He had thought that Erzsébet
might be doing well with the war, but little does he know her evil doings.
Back in the past, Dominic slept with Erzsébet for a night. When she was finally asleep, Dominic
roamed and searched the castle; but the witch caught him. They fought about being Erzsébet's
favorite person, and Dominic bragged that he was Erzsébet's current favorite. But despite
the witch's opposition to Erzsébet's drastic changes of personality and desires in life,
she continued to guard Erzsébet's back, especially against an ambitious man like Dominic.
Years had passed, and too much death occurred on the estate,
causing the villagers to panic and believe that a devil must be living among them, because of the
scattered maidens' corpses in the woods, because there was no more space for proper burials. The
wolves feasted over the rotting corpses, and flies occupied the once beautiful place.
It was one morning, and Erzsébet was updating her journal, filled with precise records of
every murder. She wrote that the peasant blood was too harsh for her skin. While writing, the
witch was sick, and sought Erzsébet's presence; but Erzsébet declined the invitation to see her.
Meanwhile, the townsfolks addressed the murders to the priest, and speculated it was Erzsébet's
evil acts. So that night, the priest sent a valet to deliver a warning letter to the king,
and he wanted to escape with the donations. But the king's attendant caught him, saying that the
priest betrayed Erzsébet. he ordered his man to chase after the valet, and killed the priest.
That night, Dominic, who slept with Erzsébet again, sneaked into her torture basement while
she was asleep, and found Erzsébet's journal, which was crucial evidence.
Erzsébet woke up, and found her servant panicking. She informed Erzsébet that Dominic escaped
with the journal, and that the witch had died. The following day, Erzsébet read the last letter
the witch wrote for her, containing her devotion for Erzsébet, and how nothing is permanent in the
world, but there is beauty when time lets it. So Erzsébet decided to visit her children in
Vienna; but the town folks mobbed her Ferrari coach, and named her a witch.
Erzsébet returned to her castle because of the mob, and let a valet fetch her children. At home,
she was ill from blood withdrawal; and so, her servants brought a young girl that night. But
Erzsébet recognized she was the young beggar, because of the golden ribbon.
She grabbed her arms and shouted at her to leave this place, or she would die.
The young beggar escaped the castle, but upon reaching the woods, Dominic killed
her. Along with him were two aristocrats. Dominic gave the two aristocrats to Erzsébet's
servants, for Erzsébet to kill. Erzsébet faced the two aristocrats, but one of the aristocrats turned
out to be Istvan's wife, who oddly said that she hadn't seen Istvan for years. Out of anger,
even though it was against her to harvest from a married woman, she slitted Istvan's wife's neck.
The following day, Gyorgy invited Erzsébet's children and her Aunt
to see the young beggar's torn corpse, and claimed it was done by Erzsébet herself.
Meanwhile, peasants from the Cachtice estate arrived in Vienna, to address Erzsébet's tortures
and murders, done to a priest, maidens, and aristocrats. However, the king showed no interest
in resolving such issues, until his servant explained that if Erzsébet was proven guilty
of using witchcraft, the king would be clear of his debts to her, and could seize her estate.
the king's attendant, who eavesdropped on the conversation, entered Gyorgy's office,
and inside were Dominic, Gyorgy and his son Istvan. he immediately informed Gyorgy that
the king learned that Erzsébet was suspected of murders and witchcraft.
But Gyorgy made an alternative plan. He let Erzsébet's children sign an agreement, allowing
the court to charge their mother with murder, but without mentioning the witchcraft, for them to be
able to inherit Cachtice castle, but the rest of the estate and military would go to Gyorgy.
This agreement might sound unfair, but this would lead Erzsébet no choice, but to agree for
her children's sake, or else the king would take everything from her, and her children's welfare.
Gyorgy sent his son and the king's attendant to investigate if all the speculations were true.
Istvan and the king's attendant arrived, and Erzsébet welcomed them with a warm dinner.
However, flies continued to disrupt their meal, but little did they know
it originated from hidden corpses. It had been five years since they saw each other,
and Erzsébet wished to be alone with Istvan. Soon after, Erzsébet confronted Istvan with his
farewell letter, containing his love for the Baroness of Denmark. but Istvan denied writing
such things. Istvan realized his father had fabricated the letter. The two shared a muscle
wrestling on bed, and the moment Erzsébet was asleep, Istvan and the king's attendant
searched the Cachtice castle for evidence. Truth couldn't be hidden, for they found Erzsébet's
torture basement, and a room of corpses. The movie ends with Erzsébet and her servants
facing trial and punishment for all the murders. Her servants suffered from immediate death,
for being Erzsébet's accomplice in killings; and Gyorgy chose to destroy the evidence for Erzsébet,
in order to have an untainted name in the town. Afterward, she signed an agreement to bequeath all
her possessions to Gyorgy, to cede Cachtice to her children, and free the king from all his debts.
Before bricking her up completely in her room as punishment, Erzsébet commented how Gyorgy
masterfully orchestrated a plan, just to obtain wealth. She believed she'd meet death with sanity,
and not a lunatic, unlike Gyorgy's description of her to others. As Erzsébet suffered inside
the bricked room, she asked the Lord how men were praised when they murdered others;
while she, a woman who murdered the same, was sent to jail. Erzsébet committed suicide, for
she could no longer handle the agony of biting off her flesh. The church didn't give her a coffin,
nor a proper burial, but only dumped her straight into the dirt, and buried her.
In the present, Istvan leaves Erzsébet's grave, and wonders if all the accusations
of her being a blood-thirsty murderess, are true, or just fabricated lies by his father.
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