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Hamlet
(1921)

This Shakespearean drama, directed by Peter Urban Gad, stars Asta Nielsen and Lilly Jacobson, with Eduard von Winterstein, Mathilde Brandt, Anton de Verdier, Heinz Steida, Hans Junkermann, Fritz Achterberg and Paul Conradi.

Edition Filmmuseum
2011 DVD edition

Hamlet (1921), black & white, 110 minutes, not rated, with Die Filmprimadonna (1913), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated.

Edition Filmmuseum, 37, unknown UPC/EAN number.
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 language subtitles; chapter stops; 20-page insert booklet; standard DVD keepcase; €29,95.
Release date: July 2011 (second edition, October 2011; third edition, 2017).
Country of origin: Germany

This PAL DVD edition has been mastered from archival film elements.

The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed by Michael Riessler.

Supplemental material includes the Nielsen short Die Filmprimadonna (1913) directed by Urban Gad (17 minutes); Asta Nielsen Privatoptagelser (1912-1914) (4 minutes); featurettes “Der elektronische Hamlet” (8 minutes), “Hamlet con Asta Nielsen” (7 minutes), “Hamlet Fassungsvergleich” (30 minutes), and “Asta Nielsen Privat” (2 minutes); a DVD-ROM section with documents about the film’s production and the restoration; and a 20-page bilingual (German and English) insert booklet with writings by Holger Ziegler, Thomas Worschech and Anke Mebold.

This is our recommended home video edition of the film. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.

This Region 0 PAL DVD edition is available directly from . . .

Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition

Hamlet (1921), black & white, 131 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; $14.99.
Release date: 201?
Country of origin: USA

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.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .