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Præsidenten
[The President]
(1919) |
This premiere directorial effort by Carl Theodor Dreyer stars Halvard Hof and Edith Pio, with support from Carl Meyer, Jacoba Jensen, Olga Raphael-Linden Betty Kirkeby and Jon Iversen. Adapted from a novel by Karl Emil Franzos.
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 Danish Film Institute
2004 DVD edition
Præsidenten [The President] (1919), color-tinted black & white, 89 minutes, not rated,
with Penge (1915) [fragment], black & white, 1 minute, not rated.
Danish Film Institute, DFICTHD, no UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD 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 6.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; Danish and English language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; DKK 159,00 / €20,95 (reduced to €16,76).
Release date: 2004
Country of origin: Denmark •
Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 8 / additional content: 7 / overall: 7.
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