Mcfarlane Bram Stoker's Dracula

In a prologue, Vlad III the Impaler (Oldman) fights for Romania as a knight in the Order of the Dragon. He defeats an overwhelming Turkish invasion in 1462. Upon returning home, he finds his beloved wife Elisabeta (Ryder) dead, having committed suicide after hearing the false reports of his death in battle by falling off the castle. Enraged at the notion of his wife being eternally damned as a suicide, a fate of which he is reminded by a priest (Hopkins), Dracula desecrates his chapel and renounces God, declaring that he will rise from the grave to avenge Elisabeta with all the powers of darkness.