Nadja (1994) on Netflix
After a stake ends Count Dracula's life, his daughter Nadja claims the body, hoping his death frees her. She travels to Brooklyn to find Edgar, her twin brother.
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Plot summary
A stake through the heart kills Count Dracula, and Nadja arrives to claim her father's body, expecting that his death will release her from the existence he imposed on her. She has it cremated and sets out for Brooklyn to visit Edgar, her twin brother. A stop for a drink brings her together with Lucy, another woman who feels empty, and the two go home together. Van Helsing, who killed Dracula, sits in jail until Jim, his nephew and Lucy's husband, posts bail. When the body leaves the morgue, Van Helsing asks Jim to help him destroy it properly. Nadja finds Edgar unwell and meets Cassandra, his nurse and live-in lover, who moves Edgar into Nadja's apartment, where Nadja treats him with plasma taken from shark embryo blood.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Nadja (1994)
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- To get a blurry, out-of-focus look that would convey the point of view of the living dead, Michael Almereyda shot part of Nadja using a Fisher-Price PixelVision camcorder.
- Nadja was hard to finance because Michael Almereyda decided to shoot in black and white instead of color, a choice made to save money and for thematic reasons. When the financing fell through, David Lynch paid for the entire film himself.
- For Nadja's Transylvanian castle scenes, the production used an abandoned hospital on Central Park West in New York City.
- Michael Almereyda wrote Nadja after a planned project of his called Fever, centered on Edgar Allan Poe, failed to attract financing.
