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Die Börsenkönigin
[Queen of the Stock Exchange]
(1916)
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This short feature film, directed by Edmund Edel, stars Asta Nielsen and Aruth Wartan, with Willy Kaiser-Heyl.
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 Edition Filmmuseum
2012 DVD edition
Vier Filme mit Asta Nielsen [Four Films with Asta Nielsen] (1913-1916), black & white, 234 minutes total, not rated, including Die Börsenkönigin (1916), color-tinted black & white, 63 minutes, not rated.
Edition Filmmuseum, 67, unknown UPC/EAN number.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 50 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; German language intertitles, optional English, French and Spanish language subtitles; chapter stops; 12-page insert booklet; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; €29,95.
Release date: June 2012
Country of origin: Germany
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Four films starring the famous Asta Nielsen have been restored or reconstructed and released in this PAL DVD collection by the Deutsche Kinemathek through Edition Filmmuseum.
The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed by Maud Nelissen.
Supplementary material includes a 12-page trilingual (German, English and French) insert booklet.
This disc is our recommended home video edition of this film. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.
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This Region 0 PAL DVD edition is available directly from . . .
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 Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition
Die Börsenkönigin (1916), black & white, 53 minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.99.
Release date: 201?
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other GERMAN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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