Dracula's Death

It is generally identified as the first film to show Count Dracula, with Károly Lajthay's film dating to 1921. Nosferatu, released in 1922, is usually treated as the first confirmed adaptation that more directly reworks Bram Stoker's novel. [National Film Institute](https://nfi.hu/en/film-archive/research-education/hungarica-research/120-most-wanted-1/silent-films/draculas-death.html)

Only loosely. The reconstructed story follows Mary Land, a young seamstress who meets an asylum inmate claiming to be Dracula, rather than Stoker's Jonathan Harker and Mina plot, and the film itself is lost. [Drakula halála](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drakula_hal%C3%A1la)

No complete copy is known to survive, so there is no verified full-length viewing print. Researchers rely on four publicity photographs and a novelization, which means some plot details remain uncertain. [Drakula halála](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drakula_hal%C3%A1la)

Paul Askonas played the Dracula figure, while the Hungarian National Film Institute credits Margit Lux as Mary Land. Károly Lajthay directed and co-wrote the 1921 silent production, although some older references list Lene Myl for the heroine. [National Film Institute](https://nfi.hu/en/film-archive/research-education/hungarica-research/120-most-wanted-1/silent-films/draculas-death.html)