DVD & Blu-ray: F.W. Murnau's TARTUFFE (1925)

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Product Description: The most gifted visual storyteller of the German silent era, F. W. Murnau crafted works of great subtlety and emotional complexity through his absolute command of the cinematic medium. Known for such dazzling films as Nosferatu (1922), The Last Laugh (1924), Faust (1926), and Sunrise (1927), Murnau was also drawn to more intimate dramas exploring the dark corners of the human mind. In Tartuffe (Herr Tartüff), he revisits Moliére's fable of religious hypocrisy, in which a faithful wife (Lil Dagover) tries to convince her husband (Werner Krauss) that their morally superior guest, Tartuffe (Emil Jannings), is in fact a lecherous hypocrite with a taste for the grape. To endow the story with contemporary relevance, Murnau frames Moliére's tale with a modern-day plot concerning a housekeeper's stealthy efforts to poison her elderly master and take control of his estate.

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Director: F.W. Murnau

Starring: Hermann Picha, Rosa Valetti, Werner Krauss, Lil Dagover, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 70 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Kino Lorber

Home Video Release Date: April 28, 2020

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• Codec: MPEG-2
• Resolution: 480i
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Encoding Format: 16:9
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

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• Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
• Resolution: 1080p
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Region: Region A/1

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• DVD: Dolby Digital Mono
• Blu-ray: DTS-HD Master Audio Mono

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• Audio commentary by film historian Troy Howarth
• Restored German release version with orchestral score by Robert Israel
• U.S. release version (SD) with music by Giuseppe Becce, adapted by Javier Perez De Azpeitia

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