Michael - Carl Theodore Dreyer (1924) (Eureka - The Masters of Cinema Series - #3) [2 DVD5s] [2004]

Danish master Carl Th. Dreyer (1889-1968) directed Michael (also known as Mikaël) in 1924 for Decla-Bioscop, the artistic wing of German production powerhouse 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-siècle study of a “decadent” elderly artist (Benjamin Christensen) driven to despair by his relationship with his young protégé and former model, Michael (Walter Slezak). With suffocatingly sumptuous production design by renowned architect Hugo Häring (his only film work), this Kammerspiel, or “intimate theatre”, foreshadows Dreyer’s magnificent final film Gertrud by precisely forty years.

MOVIE:
DIRECTOR: Carl Th. Dreyer
COUNTRY: Germany
YEAR: 1924
DVD RELEASE: October 25th 2004
STUDIO: Eureka Entertainment (Masters of Cinema Series)
SERIES#: 3
CATALOG: EKA40077
SYSTEM: PAL
SCREEN: 1.37:1 OAR
COLOR: Black & White
AUDIO: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Mono)
LANGUAGE: Silent with German or English Intertitles
RUNTIME: 90 minutes

EXTRACTION:
ENGINE: DVD Decrypter
DVD: 2 Single Layer DVDs
FILE EXTENSION: .ISO (Image)
FILE SIZE: 4.5 / 4.5 GBs
SCANS: 400 DPI Scans + PDF Booklet = 148MB
TOTAL FILE SIZE: 9.1 GBs

SPECIAL FEATURES:
# Two transfers, two scores (Pierre Oser, 1993; Neal Kurz, 2004)
# Full length audio commentary by Dreyer scholar Casper Tybjerg (Disc 1)
# Both English and German intertitled versions
# 26-minute illustrated Dreyer audio interview, 1965 (Disc 2)
# 20-page booklet
# Reprint of Tom Milne’s The World Inside (1971)
# Reprint of Jean Renoir’s Dreyer’s Sin tribute (1968)
# Translation of the original Danish programme (1924)
# New 2004 essay by Nick Wrigley

Disc 1 is the American transfer, disc 2 the European. The run times are the same with differences lying in image quality and subtitling.

Scans

http://netload.in/datei5mlRHWrrrm/MicScans.rar.htm

http://www.filesonic.com/file/26566619/MicScans.rar

Disc 1

http://netfolder.in/39tncHb/Mic1

http://www.filesonic.com/folder/483811

Disc 2

http://netfolder.in/hFU2XGh/Mic2

http://www.filesonic.com/folder/483813

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