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The House on
Trubnaya Square
(1928)

Boris Barnet’s energetic comedy The House on Trubnaya Square (1928) features Vera Maretskaya, Vladimir Fogel, Yelena Tyapkina and Sergei Komarov.

Flicker Alley
2011 DVD edition

Landmarks of Early Soviet Film (1924-1930), black & white, 595 minutes total, not rated, including The House on Trubnaya Square (1928), black & white, 85 minutes, not rated.

Flicker Alley, FA0022, UPC 6-17311-67639-0.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc (four DVDs in the set); 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 6.0 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; Russian language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; 17 chapter stops; 28-page insert booklet; four slimline DVD keepcases in cardboard slipcase; $69.99.
Release date: 20 September 2011.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 8 / additional content: 6 / overall: 8.

This DVD edition has been mastered from very-good to excellent 35mm print materials. There is some dust and speckling and other flaws, but the viewing experience is very-good.

The film is accompanied by a pleasing music score compiled and composed by Robert Israel and performed on piano, violin and tuned percussion.

Supplemental material includes a 28-page insert booklet with short essays and notes on the films by Maxim Pozdorovkin and Ana Olenina.

We recommend this DVD home video edition of the film. The collection is now out-of-print.

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