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There is a strong connection to the local identity, a mix of French and Germanic culture.

Everything about this character is a red flag, from his name, Saxon — as in the early Germanic people known for raiding their neighbors — to his inappropriate interest in his siblings’ sex lives.

Prof Heather wants to use it to investigate what he describes as one of European history's biggest mysteries: why central and eastern Europe changed from being Germanic speaking to Slavic speaking, 1,500 years ago.

The remake of the silent horror classic pits Von Franz against Bill Skarsgård’s ghastly Count Orlok, the Dracula figure in this Germanic riff on Bram Stoker’s vampire tale.

This Tóth, however, is a Hungarian Jew who outlasted a concentration camp and a Nazi regime that deemed his creations “not Germanic in character.”