Strike available on DVD and Blu-ray
Kino Lorber is proud to announce the release of two landmark silent films from the Soviet cinema – Strike (1924), the revolutionary feature-length debut of Sergei Eisenstein, and The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom (1924), a light romantic comedy from director Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky. These two films will be released on the Kino Classics label, which specializes in silent and classic cinema.
Strike comes to Blu-ray and DVD in a splendid new edition that features a new HD transfer, mastered from 35mm film elements that were restored by the Cinémathèque de Toulouse, and features a new score recorded by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. This disc also features Glumov’s Diary, a short experimental film from 1924 that was also the very first directorial effort of Sergei Eisenstein, and was made for his stage production of Alexander Ostrovky’s “Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man”. This disc also features a short documentary, “Eisenstein and the Revolutionary Spirit” (2008, 37 min.), with film historian Natacha Laurent placing Eisenstein’s work in the context of the Communist revolution and contemporary Soviet filmmaking. Strike is priced at $29.95 on DVD, and $34.95 on Blu-ray. The street date for both is August 30th.
The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom available on DVD!
The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom is unique as an alternative to the revolutionary cinema of Eisenstein. A playful romantic comedy, it stars Yuliya Solntseva as a tobacco vendor on the sidewalk outside of Moscow’s Mosselprom Trade Center, who must juggle the attention of three disparate suitors: a young cameraman, a romantic and slightly zany bookkeeper, and a wealthy American industrialist. The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom also features occasional peeks “behind the scenes” of the Mezhrabpom-Rus Studios. This edition has been mastered from 35mm elements restored by the Cinematheque de Toulouse, in cooperation with L’Immagine Ritrovata and the Foundation Groupama Gan pour le Cinema. It will become available on DVD on August 30th, priced at $29.95.
