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Different from
the Others
(1919)
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This feature drama, directed by Richard Oswald, stars Conrad Veidt and Fritz Schulz, with Leo Connard, Ilse von Tasso-Lind, Alexandra Willegh, Ernst Pittschau, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Clementine Plessner, Anita Berber and Reinhold Schünzel.
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 Kino on Video
2004 DVD edition
Different from the Others (1919), black & white, 51 minutes, not rated.
Kino International, K391, UPC 7-38329-03912-7.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD 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 7.2 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 8 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 14 December 2004.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 6 / audio: 7 / additional content: 0 / overall: 6.
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This DVD edition presents this early Conrad Veidt film in a video transfer prepared from a 35mm restoration print held by the Filmmuseum München, pieced together from an incomplete print and still photographs. Missing intertitles and storyline are reconstructed from German censorship records. What source material remains is of fair to good visual quality, with significant dust, speckling, schmutz, and other print flaws.
The film is accompanied by a music score improvised on piano by Joachim Bärenz.
This remains our recommended North American home video edition of the film.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
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 Edition Filmmuseum
2006 DVD edition
Anders als die Andern [Different from the Others] (1919), black & white, 52 minutes, not rated, with Gesetze der Liebe. Aus dem Tagebuch eines Sexualwissenschaftlers (1927), black & white, 101 minutes, not rated, and Geschlecht in Fesseln (1928), black & white, 108 minutes, not rated.
Edition Filmmuseum, 04, UPC/EAN 4-260100-330025.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD disc (two DVDs in the set); 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; 16-page insert booklet; standard DVD keepcase; €19,95.
Release date: September 2006 (expanded second edition, July 2007; third edition, January 2011; expanded fourth edition, January 2022).
Country of origin: Germany
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This PAL DVD edition has been produced by Filmmuseum München and the Goethe-Institut, München, from a 35mm restoration print held by the Filmmuseum München, pieced together from an incomplete print and still photographs. Missing intertitles and storyline are reconstructed from German censorship records.
The film is presented with an improvised piano score performed by Joachim Bärenz. Gesetze der Liebe (1927) is presented with a music score by Bernd Schultheis.
Supplemental material includes a DVD-ROM section (in German), including original documents by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, and correspondence between Richard Oswald and Veit Harlan; featurette “Gefährliche Neigungen: Die Skandalgeschichte von ‘Anders als die andern’” (7 minutes); and a 16-page bilignual (German and English) insert booklet with an essay by Stefan Drössler. The edition was recently expanded to include Sex in Chains [Geschlecht in Fesseln] (1928).
This high-quality edition, still in-print, is recommended to all. 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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 Harpodeon
2009 DVD edition
Different from the Others (1919), black & white, 29 minutes, not rated, with Salomé (1922), black & white, 32 minutes, not rated.
Harpodeon, 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; $6.99.
Release date: 31 December 2009.
Country of origin: USA
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This budget DVD-R edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print of the 1927 two-reel abridgement known as The Laws of Love: Innocent But Outlawed.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other silent era CONRAD VEIDT films available on home video.
Other GERMAN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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