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- Fatih Sultan Mehmet conquers Byzantine territory, making Istanbul capital of the Ottoman Empire. The cruel Vlad plunders Turkish villages, so Fatih orders Hamza Pasa to take care of him. Vlad captures the raiders and takes them as captives. Kara Murat whose brother is being kept as Vlad's captive, is sent as a spy to the Sultan.
- Vlad the Impaler - the true story of Dracula is not a flashy Hollywood production, which may disappoint some of the viewers. But, if you want a logical, clear, historically accurate perspective on the man that was deemed to become the Master of the Undead, and more lastingly, Count Dracula, then this documentary is for you. Do watch this documentary. Vlad the Impaler - the true story of Dracula depicts historical reality. The film explores the temporal course of Vlad's life, documenting his world as objective reality. It shows the house Vlad was born in - still standing high in its pride, today; the ruins of the Court Town of Tirgoviste - where Vlad lived in three separate times, reigning over Vallachia; the medieval Castle of Hunedoara - the only Transylvanian Castle that ever connected Vlad to Transylvania; and most importantly documents Vlad had signed as Ruler of the Independent Principality of Vallachia. Where does this film leave the history of Dracula? Where it belongs, in fiction. Where does it leave Dracula's Castle - Disneyland perhaps, a fairy tale, a great tourist attraction? However, one thing is certain. George Angelescu (An-gel- es'-coo), the Romanian-born Canadian filmmaker, the producer and author of the film, gives Vlad the Impaler - back, his real ID, and not that of the Hollywood version of Dracula. English - Dolby - Color
- A retrospective of Dracula's appearances in film. It includes trailers and scenes from many Dracula-related films. There is an emphasis on films which feature the actors Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee, as they portrayed the most popular versions of Dracula. Also covered are films depicting sons and daughters of Dracula, and Dracula-like vampires. Many of the trailers focus on the beauty of Dracula's victims, or the beauty of female vampires.
- A house, once owned by the Shockley couple, has the reputation of causing anyone who enters to never be seen again. A group of TV ghost hunters decide to investigate and are determined to uncover the secrets that lie within the walls of "Shock House", but the price for this information may be more than they bargained for.
- Beginning of the journey in Iasi (or Jassy): Phillipe takes the train to Burdujeni (Bukovina): talk about the identity of the Romanian people (they are the most Latin of the Latin people).In the Bukovina the monasteries have nice murals.Philippe goes to a church: Orthodox mass, then picnic in the cemetery, later a great dinner of the people of the village (they like their pope).Then Philippe visits the pope who is also builder( the pope says that God teaches us the pray and the work).Later Philippe speaks with farmers who are working with their plow and a horse (to buy a tractor means to pay a lot of money for the loans).Then Philippe goes to a deep valley in the Muramures where there are no roads, only a railway track: Philippe travels in a van adapted to the rails, first with policemen of the border police then with foresters. Next stop Sighisoara, the home town of Vlad III of Wallachia (also known Vlad the Impaler) who inspired the story of the Count Dracula.In the train Philippe meets a young woman who tells him that they have a Bucarest an invasion of mosquitoes( another story of blood).Then a conversation about the past (communism) and the present of Romania.In Bucarest Philippe visits with Romulus, a journalist the People's Palace build by Nicolas Ceausescu.Finally Philippe takes the train to Babadag in the Delta of the Danube and goes fishing with a young Romanian man.
- A nice journey from Bucharest (the meeting with Michaela in the Cismigu Park, the different architectural styles of the buildings, the People's Palace build in 1984, Anca Petrescu. the architect explaining the planning of this huge building of 350.000 square meters and other buildings of the town) to Mamaia, the beach at the Black Sea ( the "nouveaux riches" with their yachts, the photo shooting with Lena Criveanu,the fashion designer) passing by Bran (the castle where Vlad the Impaler was prisoner, the legend of Dracula), by Brasov , the town with the German architecture (the meeting with Steffen Schlandz, the organist, the bride in the restaurant and the invitation to the wedding), by Sinaia (the cable-car, Dan Trif, the mountain rescuer, the panorama of the Moldoveanu Peak-2.544 meters and highest peak of Romania, the story of a rescue, the polenta in the mountain refuge, the sheep shepherd), by the village of Simon (Laurentiu Dragan mowing the grass, Jérôme trying to mow the grass, the supper with trouts, cheese and bread, the traditional dances, the mountain shepherds Adrian and Jon producing cheese) and by the Danube Delta ( the investigation team with Laura, Blanca and Siliviu, the analysis of the water and of the sediments of the delta), the little village in middle of the Delta with its tomatoes and grapes gardens). Besides we see zooms about the young generation (the "Radio Killer" group, Corina Bucea and the artists of Cluj), about the Romanian cinema studios, about about the salt mine of Turda, about the marriages in Maramures (rhe "strigutari", the the mutual aid for the banquet), about the wooden churches of Maramures, about the painted churches of Bucovina and about the life of the farmers in Maramures ( the harvest of apples, the care for the cattle, the female weaver, the epitaphs in the cemetery of Sapanta).
