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The Holy Mountain
(1926)
on

2003 Kino International edition

The Holy Mountain (1926), color-tinted black & white, 105 minutes, not rated.

Kino International, K307, UPC 7-38329-03072-8.
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, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 16 chapter stops, keep case, $29.95.
DVD release date: 12 August 2003.
Country of origin: USA

Our first look at this NTSC edition shows that it has been mastered from the best available 35mm film elements, the 2001 restoration print licensed by Transit Film and the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau-Stiftung, with very-good to excellent results.

The presentation is accompanied by a jazzy music score by Aljoscha Zimmermann.

 

 

 

 
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.

2004 Eureka Video edition

The Holy Mountain (1926), black & white, 106 minutes, Classification U, with The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993), color and black & white, 180 minutes, not rated.

Eureka Video, EKA40072 (MoC 2), unknown UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 PAL, two single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 2, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound and Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, German language intertitles, English language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, £22.99.
DVD release date: 21 June 2004.
Country of origin: England

This PAL edition from Eureka’s Masters of Cinema series has been mastered from the 2001 35mm restoration print, and features new musical accompaniment in 5.1 surround sound and 2.0 stereo by Aljoscha Zimmerman. The disc also features the documentary The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993) by Ray Müller.

 
United Kingdom: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 2 PAL DVD of this edition from Amazon.co.uk.

Other silent era Leni Riefenstahl films available on DVD home video:
The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)

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)
Faust (1926)
Das fidele Gefängnis (1917) with Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Genuine (1920)
The Golem (1920)
The Hands of Orlac (1924)
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)
Madame Du Barry (1919)
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 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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