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Fritz Lang
The Early Works
(1919-1921)
 

Contents: Harakiri (1919), The Wandering Shadow (1920) and Four Around the Woman (1921).

This collection of three early Fritz Lang feature films includes an adaptation of Madame Butterfly, a drama of sex scandal, flight and redemption, and a crime-romance drama that anticipates some of Lang’s later works.
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2012 DVD edition

Fritz Lang: The Early Works (1919-1921), color-tinted and color-toned black & white, 238 minutes total, not rated, including Harakiri (1919), color-tinted and color-toned black & white, 87 minutes, not rated, The Wandering Shadow (1920), color-tinted and color-toned black & white, 67 minutes, not rated, and Four Around the Woman (1921), color-toned black & white, 84 minutes, not rated.

Kino Lorber, K1092, UPC 7-38329-10922-6.
Three single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame and windowboxed 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, 192 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard three-disc DVD keepcase in cardboard slipcase; $39.95.
Release date: 6 November 2012.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD collection of early Fritz Lang feature films has been mastered from restoration prints by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.

The films are accompanied by music scores by Aljoscha Zimmermann.

For our comparative reviews of the individual films in this collection, see our Harikiri on home video, The Wandering Shadow on home video and Four Around the Woman on home video pages.

 
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