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Berlin
Symphony of a Great City
(1927)
on

1999 Image Entertainment edition

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 62 minutes, not rated, with Opus I (1921), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated.

Image Entertainment, ID4673DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-46732-1.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD disc, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language? intertitles, no foreign language subtitles?, chapter stops, snapper case, $24.99.
DVD release date: 11 May 1999.
Country of origin: USA

This early edition of Walther Ruttmann’s hand-tinted experimental feature has been mastered from a 35mm preservation print, and adds Ruttmann’s experimental short Lichtspiel Opus I.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

Other German silent era films available on DVD home video:
Anna Boleyn (1920)
Asphalt (1929)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Deerslayer and Chingachgook (1920)
Destiny (1921)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Different from the Others (1919)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
The Doll (1919)
Eyes of the Mummy (1918)
Faust (1926)
Das fidele Gefängnis (1917) with Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Genuine (1920)
The Golem (1920)
The Hands of Orlac (1924)
The Holy Mountain (1926)
I Don’t Want to Be a Man (1920)
The Indian Tomb (1921)
The Joyless Street (1925)
The Last Laugh (1924)
The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
Metropolis (1927)
Michael (1924)
Die Nibelungen (1924)
Nosferatu (1922)
Opus I (1921)
Othello (1922)
The Oyster Princess (1919)
Pandora’s Box (1929)
People on Sunday (1929)
Phantom (1922)
Secrets of a Soul (1926)
Sex in Chains (1928)
The Spiders (1919-1920)
Spies (1928)
The Student of Prague (1913)
The Student of Prague (1926)
Sumurun [One Arabian Night] (1920)
Tartuffe (1926)
The Treasure (1923)
Warning Shadows (1923)
Waxworks (1924)
The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
The Wildcat (1921)
The Woman in the Moon (1929)

About German filmmakers:
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin (2006)
Fritz Lang: Circle of Destiny (1998)
The Way to Murnau (2003)

Collections and boxsets that include German silent era films:
Fritz Lang Epic Collection (1924-1929)
The F.W. Murnau Collection (1922-1931)
German Expressionism Collection (1920-1926)
German Horror Classics (1920-1924)
Lubitsch in Berlin (1919-1921)
The Masterworks of the German Horror Cinema (1920-1922)

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