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The scarlet empress / a Paramount Picture ; presented by Adolph Zukor ; produced by Josef von Sternberg ; directed by Josef von Sternberg ; script arranged by Manuel Komroff ; contributor to script construction, Eleanor McGeary.
LIBRA DVD 010 057 DVD + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 109.
- Criterion collection ; 109
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796--Film adaptations.
- Catherine.
- Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796.
- Queens--Russia--Biography--Drama.
- Queens.
- History.
- Russia--History--Catherine II, 1762-1796--Drama.
- Russia.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Biographical films.
- Drama.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([6] folded leaves : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Title on disc: Josef von Sternberg's The scarlet empress
- World of Josef von Sternberg
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, 2001.
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Catherine, a German princess, married the Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Because of his madness, she was able to seize the throne and become known as Catherine the Great.
- Participant:
- Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser.
- Credits:
- Photographed by Bert Glennon; film editor, Sam Winston; music by John M. Leipold and W. Frank Harling from themes from the Fourth symphony, Marche slave, and 1812 overture by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Rondo capriccioso and Midsummer night's dream, by Felix Mendelssohn, and Die Walküre by Richard Wagner.
- Notes:
- "Based on the diary of Catherine II."
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1934.
- Special features: "World of Josef von Sternberg" (20 minute BBC documentary); production stills and lobby cards; Von Sternberg tribute by underground filmmaker Jack Smith.
- Contains:
- World of Josef von Sternberg.
- ISBN:
- 1559409169
- OCLC:
- 46926020
- Publisher Number:
- 715515011822
- CC1569D The Criterion Collection
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