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Michael
| Price: | £15.43 | |
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| RRP: | £19.99You Save: £4.56 |
| Format: | DVD |
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| Screen: | Aspect Ratio 1.37:1 |
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| Languages: | German |
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| No. of Disks: | 2 |
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| Region: | Region 2 |
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| Release Date: | 25 October 2004 |
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| Availability: | Despatched within 2-4 weeks. Not guaranteed for Christmas delivery. What does this mean... |
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Danish master Carl Th. Dreyer (1889-1968) directed Michael (also known as Mikael) in 1924 for Decla-Bioscop, the artistic wing of German production power-house Ufa. It was Dreyer's sixth feature in five 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-siecle study of a 'decadent' elderly artist (Benjamin Christensen) driven to despair by his relationship with his young protege and former model, Michael (Walter Slezak). With suffocatingly sumptuous production design by renowned architect Hugo Haring (his only film work), this Kammerspiel, or 'intimate theatre', foreshadows Dreyer's magnificent final film, Gertrud, by forty years with its 'Now I may die content, for I have seen great love' epigraph.
Michael was scripted by Dreyer with fritz Lang's wife Thea von Harbou. It stars the director Benjamin Christensen, Walter Slezak, Nora Gregor, Mady Christians; and Karl Freund (who shot Metropolis) in his only ever appearance as an actor. Freund lensed most of Michael too, but left to work on Murnau's The Last Laugh and Rudolph Mate (The Passion Of Joan Of Arc) took over.
Never before released on home DVD, this 80th anniversary DVD is a timely opportunity to experience a filmed described as 'having one of the strangest and saddest fates a film ever suffered'.
Special Features
- Double-disc with 20 page booklet.
- Two different transfers of the film (USA transfer by David Shepard; European tra
- Two Scores: the 1993 Pierre Oser score (piano, clarinet, cello) and the 2004 Nea
- Full-length audio commentary by Casper Tybjerg, Dreyer scholar with the Universi
- A 26-minute illustrated audio interview with Dreyer from 1965.
- A reprint of Tom Milne's THE WORLD INSIDE from 1971, jean Renoir's 1968 tribute
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