Varieté Blu-ray
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Posted November 9, 2016 03:55 PM by Webmaster
British label Eureka Entertainment has detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of Ewald André Dupont's film Varieté (1925), starring Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti, Warwick Ward, and Alice Hechy. The release will be available for purchase on January 23.
Synopsis: A key work of German silent cinema and an international smash on its release, E. A. Dupont's VARIETÉ (Variety) is an audacious revenge melodrama set under the canvas of the big top. When Boss Huller (the iconic Emil Jannings) meets the young émigré Berta-Marie (Lya De Putti), it kindles his desire to relaunch his career as a trapeze artist, stalled due to an injury and the pressures of domestic life. But with passion comes obsession, and with the involvement of the famed Artinelli into their act, tensions rise to a fever pitch.
Visually astonishing, with some of the most inventive camerawork of the 1920s, and a typically intense and vivid central performance from Jannings, VARIETÉ is presented here in an all-new restoration of the original German version.
Our edition will feature three musical score options accompanying the new FWMS restoration of the German original: one by The Tiger Lillies, one by Stephen Horne and one by Johannes Contag.
Special Features:
Synopsis: A key work of German silent cinema and an international smash on its release, E. A. Dupont's VARIETÉ (Variety) is an audacious revenge melodrama set under the canvas of the big top. When Boss Huller (the iconic Emil Jannings) meets the young émigré Berta-Marie (Lya De Putti), it kindles his desire to relaunch his career as a trapeze artist, stalled due to an injury and the pressures of domestic life. But with passion comes obsession, and with the involvement of the famed Artinelli into their act, tensions rise to a fever pitch.
Visually astonishing, with some of the most inventive camerawork of the 1920s, and a typically intense and vivid central performance from Jannings, VARIETÉ is presented here in an all-new restoration of the original German version.
Our edition will feature three musical score options accompanying the new FWMS restoration of the German original: one by The Tiger Lillies, one by Stephen Horne and one by Johannes Contag.
Special Features:
- New 2015 2K high-definition digital restoration by the FWMS
- Three scores: one by The Tiger Lillies, one by Stephen Horne and one by Johannes Contag
- PCM audio on the Blu-ray
- Optional English subtitles for the German intertitles
- The complete American version of the film
- PLUS: A booklet featuring new writing on the film and archival images
