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Paramount Home Entertainment
Directed by: Josef von Sternberg
Emil Jannings won the first best actor Academy Award for his performance as a sympathetic tyrant: an exiled Russian general turned Hollywood extra who lands a role playing a version of his former czarist self, bringing about his emotional downfall. Josef von Sternberg’s The Last Command is a brilliantly realized silent melodrama and a witty send-up of the Hollywood machine, featuring virtuoso cinematography, grandly designed sets and effects, and rousing Russian Revolution sequences. Towering above all is the passionate, heartbreaking Jannings, whose portrayal of a man losing his grip on reality is one for the history books.
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Format:
DVD
Disc:
DVD-9 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1
Audio Options:
Musical Score Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0
Resolution:
480p/29.97
Subtitles:
English
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Types of Supplements Included: Alternate Score, Video Essay
- Two scores, one by Robert Israel and another by Alloy Orchestra
- New visual essay by film scholar Tag Gallagher
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Producer: Issa Clubb
Artwork: F. Ron Miller
Release Notes on Restoration
The Last Command
All three films are presented in their original aspect ratio of l.33:1. 0n widescreen televisions, black bars will appear on the left and right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. The pictures have been slightly windowboxed to ensure that the maximum image is visible on all monitors. These new high-definition digital transfers were created on a Spirit HD 4K Datacine, with density correction done on a Da Vinci 2K. Underworld’s transfer was created from a 35 mm fine-grain positive, The Last Command’s from a 35 mm duplicate negative, and The Docks of New York’s from a 35 mm fine-grain master positive. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, warps, iitter, and flicker were manually removed using MTl’s DRS system and Pixel Farm‘s PFClean system, while Digital Vision’s DVNR system was used for small dirt, grain, and noise reduction.
The scores by Robert Israel, Alloy Orchestra, and Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton are presented in stereo.
The scores by Robert Israel, Alloy Orchestra, and Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton are presented in stereo.