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Early
Russian Cinema
Volume 10
The End of an Era
(1917)

Contents: A Revolutionary [Revolutsioner] (1917), To Happiness [Za schastem, also known as For Luck] (1917) and Behind the Screen [Kulissi ekrana] (1917).

This disc contains the program Volume 10, The End of an Era containing three short films, two of them directed by Evgenii Bauer and the third starring Ivan Moujoukine.

The Milestone Cinematheque
2009 DVD edition

Early Russian Cinema, Volume 10, The End of an Era (1917), black & white, 72 minutes total, not rated, including A Revolutionary [Revolutsioner] (1917), black & white, 36 minutes, not rated, To Happiness [Za schastem, also known as For Luck] (1917), black & white, 41 minutes, not rated, and Behind the Screen [Kulissi ekrana] (1917), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated.

Milestone Film & Video, Mile019D, UPC 7-84148-00193-7.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 4.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 384 Kbps audio bit rate; Russian language intertitles, permanent English language subtitles; 19 chapter stops; slimline DVD keepcase; $24.95.
Release date: 1 February 2009
Country of origin: USA •

Originally produced for home video by the British Film Institute in 1991 and released in the USA on VHS videotape by Milestone Film & Video in 1992, this ten-volume (nine-disc) collection of prerevolutionary Russian film productions is now available on NTSC DVD-R discs.

The films are accompanied by music scores composed and performed on piano by Neil Brand.

For a comparative review, see our For Luck on home video page.

This collection is recommended.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .