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The
F.W. Murnau
Collection
(1922-1931)

Contents: Nosferatu (1922), The Last Laugh (1924), Tartuffe (1926), Faust (1926) and Tabu (1931).

This boxset includes five films directed by F.W. Murnau that span his career, four released by Kino International and one by Milestone Film & Video.

Kino on Video
2003 DVD edition

The F.W. Murnau Collection (1922-1931), color-tinted black & white, color-tinted black & white and black & white, 444 minutes total, not rated,
including Nosferatu (1922), color-tinted black & white, 93 minutes, not rated, The Last Laugh (1924), black & white, 91 minutes, not rated, Tartuffe (1926), color-toned black & white, 63 minutes, not rated, Faust (1926), black & white, 116 minutes, not rated, and Tabu (1931), black & white, 81 minutes, not rated.

Kino International,
unknown catalog number, UPC 7-38329-03212-8.
Five single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), 5.5 Mbps average video bit rate, 192 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 8-bit 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops; five standard DVD keepcases in cardboard slipcase; $119.95.
Release date: 11 November 2003.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 8 / additional content: 7 / overall: 8.

This DVD boxset collection of F.W. Murnau’s major works (minus Sunrise) is available in this boxset from Kino International (which includes Milestone’s edition of Tabu). All are fine films, worth owning in these discs that represent the best-available editions of the films in Region 1 DVD. Picture quality on each is the best that we have seen of these films on home video.

For our review of this edition of Nosferatu (1922) see Nosferatu on home video; for our review of this edition of The Last Laugh (1924) see The Last Laugh on home video; for our review of this edition of Tartuffe (1925) see Tartuffe on home video; for our review of this edition of Faust (1926) see Faust on home video; for our review of this edition of Tabu (1931) see Tabu on home video.

While we highly recommended this F.W. Murnau boxset for its high quality and value at the time of its release, higher-quality Blu-ray Disc editions have since been released.

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