Drakula - GMEM - Centre national de création musicale de Marseille

As part of the 11th PulzArt festival.

Based on Drakula halála (The Death of Dracula), a silent Hungarian film directed by Károly Lajthay in 1921.

A loose film adaptation of the epistolary novel of the same name (1897) by Irish writer Bram Stoker, the film is now considered lost. All that remains are four publicity stills and a Hungarian novelization, written by Lajos Pánczél and published in 1924, the only means of partially grasping the script.

"Drakula halála" is said to be the world's first film about the character. It was created by Bram Stoker and produced in Budapest in 1921.
Before moving to Hollywood and winning an Oscar for "Casablanca", its co-writer Michael Curtiz began his career in Cluj-Napoca.

Since 2018, students from the Media Department at Sapientia University in Cluj have been taking part in a series of film workshops on celluloid, with the ultimate aim of making a remake of "Drakula halála", entirely lost in the 1940s.

The music for this ciné-concert was composed by French composer Miquèu Montanaro and will be performed by 12 instrumentalists.

Mentions

Production
Transylvanian Association of Hungarian Filmmakers and Sapientia University

Program co-founded by
the European Union - Erasmus

Biography(s)

Christian Sebille

Composer

Christian Sebille is a composer and artistic director of the GMEM in Marseille. He works on the realization of sound installations in situ, in particular within the framework of a series entitled Miniatures. The place of sound capture is linked to the place of its diffusion in a ratio of space compression (reduction of the diffusion space in relation to the capture space) and temporal reduction (ratio of capture time / diffusion time). Moreover, he works on the concrete sound and on the capacity of the material to be in itself its own diffuser (the instrumental object). The radiation of the material and the movement of the object (sound) play with each other.

Miquèu Montanaro

Composer, multi-instrumentalist musician

Born in Hyères in 1955. Miquèu Montanaro is a composer and multi-instrumentalist musician, with more than 40 albums to his credit. His main instrument is the galoubet tambourin (traditional Provencal instrument composed of a flute-tambourine duo).

Miquèu Montanaro
composer and multi-instrumentalist

Born in Hyères in 1955, Miquèu Montanaro is a composer and multi-instrumentalist musician, with 35 albums to his credit. His main instrument is the galoubet-tambourine (traditional Provencal instrument composed of a flute-tambourine duo).
His practice tends to renew the traditionally practiced genre, beyond the folkloric straitjacket. He multiplies the collaborations while evolving in various musical genres: improvised music (Barre Philips, Alan Vitous, Serge Pesce, Fabrice Gaudé), world music (Carlo Rizzo, Keyvan Chemirani, Fouad Didi), chanson (Arthur H, Georges Moustaki, Sylvie Berger), new traditional music (Laurence Bourdin, Pierre-Laurent Bertolino, Baltazar Montanaro-Nagy, Estelle Amsellem), chamber music (Quatuor Talich, OCTV).
He also composes music for plays, films (documentaries, fictions), choreographies, and directs several multidisciplinary creations (music, dance, plastic arts, video...).

Location

Tamási Áron Theater, Sfântu Gheorghe (Romania)

Strada Libertății 1
Sfântu Gheorghe

Drakula

Miquèu Montanaro, Christian Sebille

International project

Cine-concert

Fri. October 10, 2025 | 6:00 pm Tamási Áron Theater, Sfântu Gheorghe (Romania)

DURATION
1h00 approx.

SCHEDULE
6:00 p.m. - Ciné-concert
7:30 p.m. - Meet the audience

Distribution

Miquéu Montanaro
flute

Christian Sebille
electronic

Gáspár Csaba
violin

Vitályos Lehel
double bass

Paul Grosar
trumpet