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The F.W. Murnau Collection
(1922-1931)
on

Contents: Nosferatu (1922), The Last Laugh (1924), Tartuffe (1926), Faust (1926), Tabu (1931).

2003 Kino International edition

Nosferatu (1922), color-tinted black & white, 93 minutes, not rated, with The Last Laugh (1924), black & white, 91 minutes, not rated, Tartuffe (1926), color-toned black & white, 63 minutes, not rated, Faust (1926), black & white, 116 minutes, not rated, and Tabu (1931), black & white, 81 minutes, not rated.

Kino International, unknown catalog number, UPC 7-38329-03212-8.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, five single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 1, 5.5 Mbps average video bit rate, 192 kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $119.95.
DVD release date: 11 November 2003.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 8 / additional content: 7 / overall: 8.

This collection of DVD editions of F.W. Murnau’s major works (minus Sunrise) is available in this box set from Kino International (which includes Milestone’s edition of Tabu). All are fine films, worth owning in these discs that represent the best-available editions of the films in Region 1. Picture quality on each is the best that we have seen of these films on home video.

For our review of this edition of Nosferatu (1922) see our Nosferatu on DVD home video page; for our review of this edition of The Last Laugh (1924) see our The Last Laugh on DVD home video page; for our review of this edition of Tartuffe (1925) see our Tartuffe on DVD home video page; for our review of this edition of Faust (1926) see our Faust on DVD home video page; for our review of this edition of Tabu (1931) see our Tabu on DVD home video page.

We highly recommended this F.W. Murnau box set for its high quality and value.

 
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Other F.W. Murnau films available on DVD home video:
Faust (1926)
The Last Laugh (1924)
Nosferatu (1922)
Phantom (1922)
Sunrise (1927)
Tabu (1931)
Tartuffe (1926)

About F.W. Murnau:
The Way to Murnau (2003)

Other German silent era films available on DVD home video:
Anna Boleyn (1920)
Asphalt (1929)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927)
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)
Das fidele Gefängnis (1917) with Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Genuine (1920)
The Golem (1920)
The Holy Mountain (1926)
I Don’t Want to Be a Man (1920)
The Indian Tomb (1921)
The Joyless Street (1925)
The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
Metropolis (1927)
Michael (1924)
Die Nibelungen (1924)
Opus I (1921)
Othello (1922)
The Oyster Princess (1919)
Pandora’s Box (1929)
People on Sunday (1929)
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)
The Treasure (1923)
Warning Shadows (1923)
Waxworks (1924)
The Wildcat (1921)
The Woman in the Moon (1929)

About German filmmakers:
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin (2006)
Fritz Lang: Circle of Destiny (1998)

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

Other silent era horror films available on DVD home video:
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Cat and the Canary (1927)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
Eyes of the Mummy (1918)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) [Epstein]
Faust (1926)
The Golem (1920)
The Hands of Orlac (1924)
Häxan (1922)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
L’Inferno (1911)
Leaves from Satan’s Book (1921)
Maciste in Hell (1926)
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
Nosferatu (1922)
The Penalty (1920)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Student of Prague (1913)
The Student of Prague (1926)
The Unknown (1927)
Warning Shadows (1923)
Waxworks (1924)

F.W. Murnau filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List
 
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