Renowned German New Wave artist and filmmaker  Ulrike Ottinger returns to the Berlin International Film Festival — where she received an Honorary Golden Bear in 2020 — with a film that took decades to get made. Premiering in the Berlinale’s Special Gala section, “The Blood Countess” is a baroque vampire mystery starring Isabelle Huppert as Countess Elizabeth Báthory, the 16th century Hungarian aristocrat branded a serial killer and immortalized in gothic lore. Inspired by the life and legend of