Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Opium
(1919)
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This cautionary drug drama, directed by Robert Reinert, stars Eduard von Winterstein and Hanna Ralph, with Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Sybil Morel, Friedrich Kühne, Alexander Delbosq and Sigrid Hohenfels.
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 Edition Filmmuseum
2021 DVD edition
Opium (1919), black & white, 92 minutes, not rated, with Sterbende Völker (1922) [fragments], black & white, 9 minutes, not rated.
Edition Filmmuseum, 116, UPC/EAN 9-783958-601161.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD disc; 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 ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; German language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; 20-page insert booklet; standard DVD keepcase; €19,95.
Release date: January 2021.
Country of origin: Germany
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This PAL DVD edition has been mastered from the 2018 reconstruction of the film conducted by Filmmuseum München and Filmmuseum Düsseldorf.
The film is accompanied by a music score composed by Richard Siedhoff and Mykyta Sierov and recorded during a live performance at the Bonn International Silent Festival on 17 August 2018.
Supplemental material includes a featurette with documents and a side-by-side comparison of Opium (4 minutes); surviving fragments of Robert Reinert’s Sterbende Völker (1922) (9 minutes); and a 20-page bilingual (German and English) insert booklet with writings by Stefan Drössler and Robert Reinert.
This is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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This
Region 0 PAL DVD edition is also available directly from . . .
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 Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition
Opium (1919), black & white, 112 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
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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.
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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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