Kino Classics, the newly launched Kino Lorber brand specialized in classic films, is proud to release on DVD and Blu-ray the first feature film by the director of Battleship Potemkin (1925).
Both versions of this new release will become available with Sergei Eisestein’s Glumov’s Diary (1923), an experimental short film made for his stage production of Alexander Ostrovsky’s Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man (and also, the filmmaker’s first film), and the 37-minute doc Eisenstein and The Revolutionary Spirit (2008). The latter features film historian Natacha Laurent and places Eisenstein’s work in the context of the Communist Revolution and Soviet filmmaking.
Set for prebook on August 2, 2011, with a price of $29.95 on DVD and $34.95 on Blu-ray, Strike will be available to the general public on August 30, 2011.
Kino’s edition of Strike was mastered in HD from a 35mm film element restored by the Cinémathèque de Toulouse, with a newly-recorded score by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, adapted largely from the works of traditional Russian composers.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
GLUMOV’S DIARY (1924, 4 MIN.): For years considered lost, Eisenstein’s first film is a playful experimental short made for his stage production of Alexander Ostrovsky’s Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man.
EISENSTEIN AND THE REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT (2008, 37 min): Film historian Natacha Laurent places Eisenstein’s work in the context of the Communist revolution and contemporary Soviet filmmaking.
