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Early
Russian Cinema
Volume 10
The End of an Era
(1917)

Contents: Revolutsioner [The Revolutionary] (1917), For Luck (1917) and Behind the Screen (1917).

This disc contains the program Volume 10, The End of an Era.

The Milestone Cinematheque
2009 DVD edition

Early Russian Cinema, Volume 10, The End of an Era (1917), black & white, 72 minutes total, not rated, including Revolutsioner [The Revolutionary] (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, For Luck (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Behind the Screen (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Milestone Film & Video, Mile019D, UPC 7-84148-00193-7.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; Russian language intertitles, permanent English language subtitles; chapter stops; slimline DVD keepcase; $24.95.
Release date: 1 February 2009
Country of origin: USA •

Originally produced for home video by the British Film Institute in 1991 and released in the USA on VHS videotape by Milestone Film & Video, this ten-volume (nine-disc) collection of prerevolutionary Russian film productions is now available on NTSC DVD-R discs.

The film are accompanied with piano music scores by Neil Brand.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .