Story of My Death

Història de la meva mort

Giacomo Casanova, once a legendary lover, nowadays a mere relic of his glorious past, travels to Transylvania and gets acquainted with Count Dracula, who – οn the contrary – is in the prime of his charm. Albert Serra fiddles the title of Casanova’s memoirs (History of My Life), orchestrates a transcendental tête-à-tête between two archetypal figures, illustrating in a playful and allegoric tone the transition of European thinking and art from rationalism to romanticism. Two worlds, equally divided between light and darkness, integrated in the everlasting cycle of decay and succession, found not only in nature, but in human civilization as well.

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Direction: Albert Serra

Script: Albert Serra

Cinematography: Jimmy Gimferrer

Editing: Albert Serra

Sound: Joan Pons, Jordi Ribas

Music: Joe Robinson, Enric Juncà, Ferran Font, Marc Verdaguer

Actors: Vicenç Altaió, Clara Visa, Noelia Rodenas, Montse Triola, Eliseu Huertas, Lluís Serrat

Production: Andergraun Films

Co-production: Capricci

Art Direction: Mihnea Mihailescu, Sebastian Vogler

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Spain, France

Production Year: 2013

Duration: 148΄

Contact: Andergraun Films

Awards/Distinctions: Golden Leopard – Locarno IFF 2013

Albert Serra

Born in Banyoles in 1975, Albert Serra is a Catalan artist and director. Having studied philosophy and literature, he wrote plays and produced different video works. He gained international recognition with his first long feature, Honor of the Knights, a free adaptation of Don Quijote played by non-professional actors from his village. The film was presented at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight in 2006. For his second film, Birdsong, Serra took inspiration from a traditional Catalan Christmas song, El cant dels ocells, and worked with the same group of people to tell the story of the Three Wise Men following their guiding star to find Jesus. In 2013, the Centre Pompidou in Paris gave him a carte blanche for correspondence with the Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso. The same year he received the Golden Leopard in Locarno for his new film Story of my Death, inspired by Casanova’s memoirs. The Death of Louis XIV starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as the Sun King was presented in the Official Selection of Cannes Film Festival 2016. Liberté, starring Helmut Berger, Marc Susini, Baptiste Pinteaux, is the cinematic recreation of his 2018 Berlin Volksbühne play of the same name, which won the Special Jury award at the 2019 Un Certain Regard selection at Cannes. In 2022, he returned to Cannes in the Official Competition Section, with Pacifiction.