We remembered learning, a few years prior, about a silent film called Dracula’s Death – a Hungarian-Austrian-French co-production, and likely the world’s first Dracula film, made in 1921, one year before Murnau’s famous Nosferatu. Unfortunately, all known copies of the film were likely destroyed during World War II. Given this background, we decided to remake this “lost analogue” movie, which fit perfectly with our vision for a unified visual style. We found only three still photos and a so-called “fantastic film novel” with the same title, written in Hungarian, at the National Széchényi Library in Budapest. The novel, published in 1924 – three years after the film’s release – was likely written for audiences who couldn’t see the movie in theaters. It was written by Lajos Pánczél, a Hungarian journalist and film critic from Timișoara (RO)/Temesvár (HU), a city in the Banat region near Transylvania, which was part of Hungary before World War I and became part of Romania afterward. The cover of the “fantastic film novel” Paul Askonas in the role of Dracula Source: Képes Mozivilág (Illustrated Cinema World) magazine 1921/3 18