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| naar keuze Duitse of Engelse ondertiteling, €29,95 |
KIJK QUICKTIME FILM TRAILER  
FILM: MICHAEL (1924)
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Danish master Carl Th. Dreyer (1889-1968) directed Michael (also known as Mikaël) in 1924 for Decla-Bioscop,
the artistic wing of German production powerhouse Ufa. It was Dreyer's sixth feature in 5 years and his second in Germany  Based on Herman Bang's 1902 novel of the same name, Dreyer's film is a fascinating fin-de-siècle study of a 'decadent'
elderly artist (Benjamin Christensen) driven to despair by his relationship with his young protégé and former model,
Michael (Walter Slezak) Michael was scripted by Dreyer with Fritz Lang's wife Thea von Harbou (Metropolis,
M, etc). It stars the director Benjamin Christensen (Häxan); Walter Slezak (Hitchcock's Lifeboat); Nora Gregor
(Renoir's The Rules of the Game); Mady Christians (Ophüls' Letter from an Unknown Woman); and Karl Freund
(who shot Metropolis) in his only ever appearance as an actor. Freund lensed part of Michael too, but left to work
on Murnau's The Last Laugh, and Rudolph Maté (The Passion of Joan of Arc) took over This 80th anniversary DVD set gives us the opportunity to experience a film that was described (by
Dreyer biographers J. and D. Drum) as 'having one of the strangest and saddest fates a film ever suffered'. S P E C I A L F E A T U R E S
* Special 80th Anniversary Edition - 2 discs
* Two transfers, two scores (Pierre Oser, 1993; Neal Kurz, 2004)
* Full length audio commentary by Dreyer scholar Casper Tybjerg
* Both English and German intertitled versions
* 26-minute illustrated Dreyer audio interview, 1965
or download: audio interview with Carl Th. Dreyer (1965) Engels 25minuten, 11Mb
* 20-page booklet
* Reprint of Tom Milne's The World Inside (1971)
* Reprint of Jean Renoir's Dreyer's Sin tribute (1968)
* Translation of the original Danish programme (1924)
* New 2004 essay by Nick Wrigley
* Region 0, PAL: not region-encoded / regionfree |
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