Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Nathan the Wise
(1922)
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Manfred Noa directed this historical drama starring Werner Krauss, Carl de Vogt and Max Schreck.
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 Edition Filmmuseum
2006 DVD edition
Nathan the Wise (1922), color-tinted and color-toned black & white, 123 minutes, not rated.
Edition Filmmuseum, 10, UPC/EAN 4-260100-330100.
One single-sided, dual-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 7.0 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, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Russian language subtitles; 8 chapter stops; 16-page insert booklet; standard DVD keepcase; €19,95.
Release date: December 2006 (expanded second edition, March 2010; improved third edition, November 2011; revised fourth edition, December 2020).
Country of origin: Germany
Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 8 / additional content: 5 / overall: 7.
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This PAL DVD edition has been mastered from a very-good 35mm print that is a bit contrasty, with lost details in highlights in nearly every shot, but with reasonably open shadows. Midrange greytones are well represented with very-good image detail, and the picture is reasonably stable. Dust, speckling, some processing flaws and very minor print damage are present, but rarely seen at a level of distraction. The full-frame video transfer has been made at a natural speed resulting in a slight jerkiness to some of the action, indicating a slower original camera cranking speed of approximately 16 frames per second. The film is presented with color tints — always a good choice with their tinted highlights that visually stand-in for blasted-out detail and help hold the remaining highlights detail — that are those of the source print or have been added for this presentation.
The film is presented with optional accompaniment; one a music score composed by Aljoscha Zimmermann, and performed by Sabrina Hausman and Mark Pogolski on piano and violin, the other an improvised piano score performed by Joachim Bärenz.
Supplemental material includes an image gallery of lobby cards; and a 16-page insert booklet with an article by Stefan Drössler about the film’s production and reception.
This high-quality edition 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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United Kingdom: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 PAL DVD edition from Amazon.co.uk. Purchase supports Silent Era.
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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
Nathan the Wise (1922), black & white, 128 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; $19.99.
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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