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Landmarks of
Early Soviet Film
(1924-1930)

Contents: The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924), By the Law (1926), Stride, Soviet! (1926), The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927), The House on Trubnaya Square (1928), Old and New (1929), Turksib (1929) and Salt for Svanetia (1930).

This boxed collection features four feature-length dramas and comedies, and four feature-length documentaries.

Flicker Alley
2011 DVD edition

Landmarks of Early Soviet Film (1924-1930), black & white, 595 minutes total, not rated, including The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924), black & white, 73 minutes, not rated, By the Law (1926), black & white, 80 minutes, not rated, Stride, Soviet! (1926), black & white, 69 minutes, not rated, The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927), black & white, 87 minutes, not rated, The House on Trubnaya Square (1928), black & white, 85 minutes, not rated, Old and New (1929), black & white, 120 minutes, not rated, Turksib (1929), black & white, 57 minutes, not rated, and Salt for Svanetia (1930), black & white, 52 minutes, not rated.

Flicker Alley, FA0022, UPC 6-17311-67639-0.
Four single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD discs; 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 5.8 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, English language subtitles; 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: 6 / audio: 7 / additional content: 6 / overall: 6.

This DVD boxset of eight Soviet feature films ranges from good to excellent, with 35mm print materials utilized for the high-quality video transfers. Some of the films are presented for the first time on DVD home video.

The films are accompanied by music scores by Robert Israel, Eric Beheim, Alexander Rannie and Zoran Borisavljevic.

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

For our comparative reviews of the individual films in the collection, see our By the Law on home video, The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks on home video, Fall of the Romanov Dynasty on home video, The House on Trubnaya Square on home video, Old and New on home video, Salt for Svanetia on home video, Stride, Soviet! on home video and Turksib on home video pages.