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Victor Sjöström
(1981)

This feature-length documentary was directed by Gösta Werner, produced by Sjöström biographer Bengt Forslund, and features Ingmar Bergman.

2008 Kino International edition

Victor Sjöström (1981), color and black & white, 65 minutes, not rated,
with The Outlaw and His Wife (1918), black & white, 70 minutes, not rated.

Kino International, K598, UPC 7-38329-05982-8.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, Swedish language audio, English language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $29.95.
DVD release date: 29 July 2008.
Country of origin: USA

This editon of the documentary has been paired with one of Victor Sjöström’s best-known films, previously available on laserdisc and VHS videotape. Its appearance on DVD has been too long coming, and is to be considered a companion piece to Bengt Forslund’s biography on Sjöström.

 
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
 
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.
Other Swedish silent era films available on home video:
Erotikon (1920)
Ingeborg Holm (1913)
A Man There Was (1917)
The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)
The Saga of Gosta Berling (1924)
Sir Arne’s Treasure (1919)

Other silent era-related documentaries available on home video:
American Experience: Mary Pickford (2005)
Before Hollywood, There Was Fort Lee, N.J. (1964)
Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982)
Birth of a Legend (1966)
Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965)
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies (2001)
The Chaplin Puzzle (1992)
Chaplin’s Art of Comedy (1966)
Chaplin’s Goliath (1996)
Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years (2003)
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003)
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995)
Clara Bow: Discovering the ‘It’ Girl (1999)
Discovering Cinema (1908-2004)
Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler (1976)
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin (2006)
The Film Parade: A History of Early Cinema (1933-1947)
Forgotten Silver (1997)
Fritz Lang: Circle of Destiny (1998)
The Gentleman Tramp (1975)
The Great Chase (1963)
Harold Lloyd’s World of Comedy (1962)
Kingdom of Shadows (1998)
The Last Diva: Francesca Bertini (1982)
Laurel and Hardy’s Laughing 20s (1965)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1982)
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000)
The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon (2004)
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998)
The Man You Loved to Hate (1979)
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (1997)
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde (1997)
Memories of the Silent Stars
Olive Thomas: Everybody’s Sweetheart (2004)
Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat (1977)
The Railrodder (1965)
Rudolph Valentino: The Great Lover (2006)
Sergei Eisenstein: Autobiography (1996)
Silent Britain (2006)
Slaphappy: The Movie (2004)
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton at MGM (2004)
30 Years of Fun (1963)
Unknown Chaplin (1983)
The Way to Murnau (2003)
When Comedy Was King (1960)
Without Lying Down (2000)

 
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