BAFTA Awards, Won BAFTA Cymru Award: Best Children's Programme; Nominated BAFTA Children's Award: BAFTA Kids' Vote-Television

Young Dracula

2006, regia di Joss Agnew, Matthew Evans e altri

Scheda: Nazione: GB - Produzione: BBC Wales - Distribuzione: BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), FilmRise, Yleisradio - Creatori: Danny Robins, Dan Tetsell - Soggetto-sceneggiatura: Danny Robins, Dan Tetsell, Michael Lawrence, Joe Williams, Emma Reeves e altri - Fotografia: Len Gowing, Sarah Bartles-Smith, Mark Waters, Toby Moore - Montaggio: David Cresswell, Belinda Cottrell, Daniel Gethic, William Oswald, Natasha Wilkinson, Pete Drinkwater, Christian Blood - Art Director: Chris Kay, Kirsty Crumpton, Sarah Miles - Scenografia: Paul Rowan, Venita Gribble - Costumi: John Krausa, Jilly Thornley - Musiche: Nick Lloyd, John Rea, Simon Rogers, Michael J. McEvoy - Effetti speciali: Space Digital - Formato: Color, serie tv, 5 stagioni - Durata: 25' ogni episodio.

Cast: Keith-Lee Castle, Clare Thomas, Simon Ludders, Gerran Howell, Terry Haywood, Andy Bradshaw, Craig Roberts, Terence Maynard, Sydney White, Lucy Borja-Edwards, Aneirin Hughes, Ben McGregor, Luke Bridgeman, Beth Robert, Cesare Taurasi, Richard Southgate, Letty Butler, Jo-Anne Knowles.

Trama e commenti: timburtonitalia.forumfree.it: «...Young Dracula è una serie prodotta dalla BBC e andata in onda per la prima volta in tv nel 2006. Si tratta di un Teen drama/Supernatural drama che nel 2008 ha vinto un BAFTA e sottolineo BAFTA... La storia inizia con il trasferimento della famiglia Dracula nella piccola città di Stokely, in Galles, a causa di 'piccole incomprensioni' con i peasants, citando Keith-Lee Castle. L'allegra famigliola è composta da Vladimir, la sorella maggiore Ingrid, il servo Renfield, il lupo Zoltan e, naturalmente, il conte Dracula. Naturalmente le normalissime piccoli liti familiari e i divertenti siparietti sono solo il contorno alla storia, dato che fra cacciatori, viventi e altri vampiri ne accadranno delle belle. ...».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - en.wikipedia.org - tvtropes.org - tv.com - youngdracula.wikia.com - hulu.com - scifan.pazsaz.com - taliesinttlg.blogspot.it: «The path of the Young Dracula series has evolved from being a predominantly kids’ show, with adult nuances and a dark heart, through Seasons 1 and 2 to a less comedic, more young adult orientated show in Season 3. They have continued along this path in season 4 [and 5]. There is still some comedy in the form of Renfield (Simon Ludders) and that comedy tends towards the physical and juvenile gross out comedy. Also Keith-Lee Castle is still suavely brilliant as the Count, under cutting his performance with a rock star performance that teases out the comedic nuances of his character. However, beyond this much of the lightness has been removed. Vlad (Gerran Howell) has brokered a fragile peace between the Vampires’ High Council and the Slayers and this season sees political machinations, dynastic marriages (or not), blood farming and general intolerance between two groups of people neither of whom can seem to control their (homicidal) tendencies. Vlad also discovers In this that he has an illegitimate older half-brother. The series actually uses the Vlad character as the centre of its renewed dark heart. He has gone from an idealistic lad, for whom things tended to go right in the end, to a young man struggling with responsibility, desire and power. We see him having to destroy his own kind, betray the girl he loves (by turning her when she is dying) and have her turn on him, challenged for his power, slipping into the use of real blood and becoming more and more paranoid, untrusting of those around him. ...».

Conosciuto anche con il titolo: El joven Drácula.

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