Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
如果忽略此次会议的议题，这就是一场非常标准的圆桌政治博弈，各派系间就自身利益最大化展开争论、说服、协商、妥协；然而即便派系观点和利益存在冲突，但他们在犹太人种族灭绝的问题上却是空前一致，令人不寒而栗。
这群人讨论600万人的生死 居然那么从容淡定 细思极恐有没有？ 这个版本做了一些改编 资料是绝密的 甚至会议纪要都是要求销毁处理 这个里面最后都发出去了？
因为在上洗手间，没有第一时间接到电话，妈妈听了，对面那头没人说话。 他极其罕见的对母亲发怒。 不知守着电话多久，此时她边咬着嘴唇边拨打了纸片上的号码，几声响后，惊喜的他慌忙接起，稳住情绪，平静的说： “喂” “德累斯顿怎么样？” …… 好羡慕啊，德国人在这个年代还能拍出这样的电影，妈的
3、上世纪三十年代的柏林真现代，如果说是现代也不违和
现代的拍摄手法讲述1930年的法比安，电影和历史爱好者的狂欢
因为清醒 所以绝望 所以无所适从 所以格格不入
梦与死，在爱人的肩膀上。生活，永远在跳跃。三个小时完全不闷，好看。（汤姆希林身上有很深邃的气质）
这电影排的其实挺深刻的，容易造成看完了没看懂的景象，反正我看完是傻那了，不会游泳却要救人，像毕赣说的“没有了心跳却活了三年”，整个近三个小时的故事里，情绪有颓废有热烈，有缓和有愤怒，结合着亲情，爱情，友情三条主线，主人公的感情被毫无保留的呈现出来，确实人的感情是复杂的，也确实人的感情是简单的
不敢想宏大抱负，甚至过不好渺小一生，观众知道为什么，所以无法责备荒唐度日的年轻人。剪辑和配乐节奏恰好呼应了混乱年代的色彩，遗憾对魏玛共和国历史了解得还不够，不然会更有代入感。
战间柏林的轻悲剧，moralist的末路。变着法子插入老电影风格，表现主义元素贴近时代感。一直好奇魏玛德国的时代心理状态，文化的无比繁荣，政治的无比撕裂，经济的无比失败。开头穿过当代地铁站走上31年柏林，是不是有比附当下意味在。
你穿着旧外套，饿着肚子，但仍然可以挺直腰板。你总被拒之门外，是你自己的问题。
思来想去，还是不忍心不给五分，虽然最后十分钟把我看得怒火中烧的，一万个不理解o(╥﹏╥)o 第一，fabian可以死，甚至必死，甚至可以这样死，但是为啥非要这个时机死呢？？搞什么烂俗的命中注定阴差阳错啊我真的是……第二，fabian看起来是“应该”死的，但是活下来会不会更深刻一些呢？虽然也会更残忍吧……很郁闷，三个小时的精彩纷呈精神紧张，在我心里最后十分钟是没收住的。画外男声：fabian淹死了。画外女声：他不会游泳。——这两句画外音算是结尾的亮点了。 五星同样送给男神希林（希林可真是个好名字），演绎这样的角色简直是手到擒来了，无可指摘❤
“我热爱生活，但我也逐渐在失去生活”
这电影还挺文艺的…不扭捏作态，不无病呻吟
我今年看过最忧郁的电影。没有什么不合时宜，毁灭是我们的命运。
◎孤寂，无力，让人不安。
听你妈妈的话 她大多数时候都是对的
混乱的秩序，堕落的人们，在一战与二战相交的时代里。
“学会游泳”太残忍了
听你妈妈的话 她大多数时候都是对的
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