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The Oyster Princess
(1919)

2006 Kino International edition

The Oyster Princess (1919), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated,
with I Don’t Want to Be a Man (1919), black & white, 45 minutes, not rated.

Kino International, K515, UPC 7-38329-05152-5.
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, 13 chapter stops, keep case, $29.95.
DVD release date: 5 December 2006.
Country of origin: USA

Our first look at this edition, which has been mastered from the 35mm restoration print prepared by the F.W. Murnau Stiftung, reveals an excellent video transfer from an excellent 35mm source print. The film is presented with a lively 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.
 
This Region 1 NTSC DVD is also available directly from Kino International.
Other silent era Ernst Lubitsch films available on home video:
Anna Boleyn (1920)
The Doll (1919)
Eternal Love (1929)
Eyes of the Mummy (1918)
Das fidele Gefängnis (1917) with Trouble in Paradise (1932)
I Don’t Want to Be a Man (1919)
Madame Du Barry (1919)
The Marriage Circle (1924)
Sumurun [One Arabian Night] (1920)
The Wildcat (1921)

About Ernst Lubitsch:
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin (2006)

Collections and boxsets that include silent era Ernst Lubitsch films:
Lubitsch in Berlin (1919-1921)

Other silent era Emil Jannings films available on home video:
Anna Boleyn (1920)
Eyes of the Mummy (1918)
The Last Laugh (1924)
Madame Du Barry (1919)
Othello (1922)
Tartuffe (1925)
Waxworks (1924)

Other silent era Pola Negri films available on home video:
Eyes of the Mummy (1918)
Hotel Imperial (1927)
Madame Du Barry (1919)
Sumurun [One Arabian Night] (1920)
The Wildcat (1921)
The Woman He Scorned (1929)

Other GERMAN silent era films available on home video.

 
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