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".
片中的发言有的听起来非常熟悉，但要知道，之所以熟悉可不是因为熟知或反思历史，而是因为在那几十年后、直至当下，海德里希和艾希曼的逻辑仍然在有的地方盛行。
怎么看都不像这个时代的片子，导演是从任何一个角度来陈述一段发生在上个世纪的故事。人生之不如意十有八九，不肯向命运低头的人们，常常发现自己的执着，到最后一无所有。
浪费3小时的时光，就为了看一个自诩为道德品质自命不凡，却又在社会上卑微如蝼蚁的普通人走向无力的毁灭。
我对这部电影本身没兴趣，但是据说是讲述1931年的德国人的平常生活，我只能说，这个世界的发展太不平衡了，发达国家与其他国家的区别，真的是很多人想象不到的
太爱了。魏玛时代混沌的社会，一切精神都充满了撕裂，正直与道德无法生存。希望拥抱爱情最后却溺水身亡的作家。只有真实才会给人以慰藉，只有真实的慰藉才给人以活下去或者死亡的勇气。
完全靠对话推动的惊悚感，轻巧的语言与其背后地狱般的处决场景，一千万人的痛苦与死亡，更多人的信仰与价值的崩塌，二十世纪最骇人听闻的惨剧在短短几小时的会议上被敲定，人类实在让人不寒而栗。
3.法比安的身体沉到了水底 他的东西被烧了干净水 只有水面上漂浮的烟头印证着他存在过
你爱我越来越少 我爱你越来越多 我们真互补
法比安消失了 就像他没存在过一样 献给所有生活脱轨的人 正在失去自己生活的人 到底什么是体面的生活
一個理想主義者生活在一個豬圈般的社會中就是一個悲劇
前半部分很琐碎，经常切换镜头的处理方式让我有点不适，难以进入状态，后半部分渐入佳境，慢慢展现出德国1941那个慢慢抛弃理性和良知、走向疯狂和堕落的时代，学不会游泳的法比安于是就成为了一个“不合时宜的人”，对今天生活在此地的我们也许颇有共鸣
世界在崩塌，人们在狂欢。清醒的人以各种玩笑的方式离去。
很久没有半路弃一部电影了 实在受不了 所有的乱七八糟。
我对你的感情是我自己的事，与你无关。
电影比例是以前的，一些黑白闪回，佩服他的每次拒绝，对她爱的深切，关心则乱。处在当时代的环境下，选择已经不多！
以为硕士论文就够emo的了，博士、博士后论文原来更可怕啊；不会游泳真的不要下河去救落水儿童。片子好长，手持镜头有点太晃了
1.女性对爱情沉沦交出一切的时候男性在心里说:真麻烦被缠上了
活着只是侥幸，死亡才是必然
这电影还挺文艺的…不扭捏作态，不无病呻吟
本片的可怕之处在于将讨论如何杀人这件事搞得如此有仪式感。各方不断地为自身利益博弈，那些我们听起来如此反人道的话在他们口中好像日常聊天那般轻松，几千万人的生命就这样被他们在话里行间给决定了。德国每年都会出一些关于纳粹历史的片子，根本是在于对自身的警醒，而现在的局势已经不仅限于德国，而是全世界全人类，这类影片在时刻提醒我们，它们曾经存在过，且离我们并不遥远
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