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Early Russian Cinema
(1908-1919)

Contents: Volume One: Beginnings and Volume Two: Folklore and Legend; Volume Three: Starewiczs Fantasies; Volume Four: Provincial Variations; Volume Five: Chardynin' Pushkin; Volume Six: Class Distinctions; Volume Seven: Evgenii Bauer; Volume Eight: Iakov Protazanov; Volume Nine: High Society; Volume Ten: The End of an Era.

2009 Milestone Film & Video edition

Early Russian Cinema [volumes 1-10] (1908-1919),
black & white, 710 minutes total (approximate), not rated,
including [Drama in a Gypsy Camp Near Moscow] (1908), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, [A Fish Factory in Astrakhan’] (1908), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, [A Sixteenth Century Russian Wedding] (1908), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Sten’ka Razin (1908), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, [Princess Tarakanova] (1910), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Rusalka (1910), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, [Romance with a Double-Bass] (1911), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Bratya Razboiniki [The Brigand Brothers] (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, [volume three contents to come], [The Wedding Day] (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, [Merchant Bashkirov’s Daughter] (1913), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, [The Queen of Spades] (1910), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, [The House in Kolomna] (1913), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, [The Peasants’ Lot] (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, [Silent Witnesses] (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, [A Child of the Big City] (1914), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, [Daydreams] (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, [The 1002nd Ruse] (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Ukhad velikogo startsa [The Departure of a Great Old Man] (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Pikovaya Dama [The Queen of Spades] (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, [Autosha Ruined by a Corset] (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, [A Life for a Life] (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, [The Funeral of Vera Kholodnaya] (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Revolutsioner [The Revolutionary] (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, [For Luck] (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and [Behind the Screen] (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Milestone Film & Video, no catalog number (as set), no UPC number (as set).
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, nine single-sided, single-layered DVD-R discs, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, Russian language intertitles, permanent English language subtitles, chapter stops, slimline keep cases, $200.00 (complete set).
DVD release date: 1 February 2009
Country of origin: USA

Originally produced for home video by the British Film Institute in 1992 and released in the USA on VHS videotape by Milestone Film & Video, this ten-volume (nine-disc) collection of prerevolutionary Russian film productions is now available on NTSC DVD-R discs. Musical accompaniment by Neil Brand.

For information regarding each individual volume, see these pages: Disc 1, Disc 2, Disc 3, Disc 4, Disc 5, Disc 6, Disc 7, Disc 8 and Disc 9.

 

These Region 0 NTSC DVD-R discs are available directly from Milestone Film & Video.

Other EVGENII BAUER films available on home video.

Other Yakov Protazanov films available on home video:
Aelita (1924)

Other RUSSIAN silent era films available on home video.

Collections and boxsets that contain silent era SHORT DRAMA films.

 
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