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Scherben
(1921)

This drama, directed by Lupu Pick, stars Werner Krauss and Edith Posca, with Hermine Strassmann-Witt, Paul Otto and Lupu Pick.

Edition Filmmuseum
2018 DVD edition

Der Gang in die Nacht (1920), black & white, 81 minutes, not rated, with Scherben (1921), black & white, 66 minutes, not rated.

Edition Filmmuseum, 97, unknown UPC/EAN number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD disc (two DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 50 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; German language intertitles, optional English and French language subtitles; chapter stops; 20-page insert booklet; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; €29,95.
Release date: December 2018 (second edition, September 2019).
Country of origin: Germany

This PAL DVD edition has been mastered from archival film print materials.

The film is accompanied by a music score composed by Christian Roderburg, and performed by the Filmmusik-Ensemble of the Musikhochschule in Wuppertal.

Supplemental material includes the featurette Musik für Murnau with composer Richard Siedhoff (30 minutes); and a 20-page trilingual (German, English and French) insert booklet with writings by Stefan Drössler, Werner Sudendorf, Anton Kaes, Richard Siedhoff and Louis Delluc.

This is our recommended home video edition of the film. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.