Kino International has scored a big goal with the release of this DVD edition of a much-liked Paul Leni film. This edition has been mastered from a restoration print produced by the Cineteca del Comune di Bologna, with restoration lab work by L’Immagine Retrovata. English language intertitles from a 1924 British print have been inserted for this edition. The film is accompanied by a piano score composed and performed by Jon C. Mirsalis.

Our first look at the disc reveals a very-good 35mm restoration print that is moderately speckled and dusty, but generally a pleasure to watch, except for the sometimes over-saturated colors of the toning.

Supplemental materials include Paul Leni’s experimental short film Rebus-film No. 1 (1926) from a contrasty reduction print, and an exerpt from The Thief of Bagdad (1924).

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 Conrad Veidt films available on DVD home video:
The Beloved Rogue (1927)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Different from the Others (1919)
The Hands of Orlac (1924)
The Indian Tomb (1921)
The Man Who Laughs (1928)

Other German silent era films available on DVD home video:
Anna Boleyn (1920)
Asphalt (1929)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927)
The Deerslayer and Chingachgook (1920)
Destiny (1921)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
The Doll (1919)
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 Joyless Street (1925)
The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
Metropolis (1927)
Michael (1924)
Die Nibelungen (1924)
Nosferatu (1922)
Opus I (1921)
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)
The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
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)

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)