Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Kashtanka
(1926)
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This feature drama, directed by Ivan Pravov and Olga Preobrazhenskaya, stars Nikolai Panov and Yevgeniya Khovanskaya, with Naum Rogozhin, Antonin Pankryshev, Leonid Yurenev, Yuri Zimin, Elena Tyapkina, Gulya Korolyova and B. Sneguiriev.
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 Rare Films and More
202? DVD edition
Kashtanka (1926), black & white, 73 minutes, not rated, with Samanishvili’s Stepmother (1926), black & white, 54 minutes, not rated.
Rare Films and More, 3309, no UPC number.
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; Czech language intertitles, optional English and Spanish subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.99.
Release date: 202?
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from files lifted from an Internet streaming site or from another company’s home video edition.
The film is likely accompanied by a music score pirated from another company’s home video edition or a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
Note that this company apparently has a history of pirating other home video editions to produce their products. Be aware that purchasing pirated home video editions does not benefit the original edition producers nor the composers whose music is often pirated as well.
For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other RUSSIAN and SOVIET FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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