UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15594563
Format:
3 DVD-Video (79/133 Min. + Bonus), 1 BD (70 Min. + 145 Min. Bonus)
Content:
A deluxe collector's set featuring three early masterworks by visionary Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov in newly translated and restored director's cuts: WHISPERING PAGES, a brooding, beautiful film inspired by nineteenth-century Russian literature, primarily Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment; STONE, a mysterious fable about a young night watchman's encounter with the ghost of Chekhov; and SAVE AND PROTECT, a visually sumptuous adaptation of Flaubert's Madame Bovary. (Cinema Guild)
Content:
Disc 1 (Blu-ray): Whispering Pages (BD) 1994 / Russia / 70 min / 1.33:1 / NR / 1080p Russian Dolby Digital 2.0 / English subtitles Extras: - Soviet Elegy (1989, 37 minutes) - An Example of Intonation (1991, 48 minutes) - Questions About Cinema, a documentary on Alexander Sokurov (2008, 60 minutes) Disc 2 (DVD): Stone 1992 / Russia / 79 min / 1.33:1 / NR Russian Dolby Digital 2.0 / English subtitles Extras: - Audio Commentary by film critic and curator James Quandt - Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat (1998, 48 minutes) - "The House That Chekhov Built," a BBC audio program on Anton Chekhov's house in Yalta, the setting for STONE (30 minutes) - Sonata For Hitler (1979-1989, 10 minutes) Disc 3 (DVD): Save and Protect 1990 / Russia / 133 min / 1.33:1 / NR Russian Dolby Digital 2.0 / English subtitles Extras: - SD copy of WHISPERING PAGES (1994, 70 minutes)
Note:
Ländercode: BD: A/ DVD: 1
Author information:
Sokurov, Aleksandr
