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The Bolshevik
Trilogy
Three Films by
Vsevolod Pudovkin
(1925-1928)

Contents: Mother (1926), The End of St. Petersburg (1927), Storm Over Asia (1928) and Chess Fever (1925).

Flicker Alley
2020 Blu-ray Disc edition

The Bolshevik Trilogy: Three Films by Vsevolod Pudovkin (1925-1928), black & white, 291 minutes total, not rated, including Mother (1926), black & white, 87 minutes, not rated, The End of St. Petersburg (1927), black & white, 73 minutes, not rated, Storm Over Asia (1928), black & white, 131 minutes, not rated, and Chess Fever (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Flicker Alley, FA0068, UPC 6-17311-68689-4.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Region A Blu-ray Discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) 24 fps progressive scan image encoded in SDR AVC format at ? Mbps average video bit rate; LPCM 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Mbps audio bit rate; Russian language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; insert booklet; standard two-disc BD keepcase; $59.98 (reduced to $49.95).
Release date: 10 March 2020.
Country of origin: USA

This Blu-ray Disc collection has been mastered by Lobster Films, Paris, from archival 35mm prints.

The film is accompanied by music scores composed and performed by a number of musicians, including Antonio Coppola, Vladimir Yurovsky, and Timothy Brock and the Olympia Chamber Orchestra.

Supplementary material includes audio commentary for Mother (1926) by historian Peter Bagrov; audio commentary for Storm Over Asia by historian Jan-Christopher Horak; a presentation of the comedy Chess Fever (1925); the short film Notebooks of a Tourist Presents: St. Petersburg (circa 1920); the short film Amateur Images of St. Petersburg (1930); a comparison of Pudovkin’s “Five Principles of Editing”; “A Revolution in Five Moves,” a visual essay showcasing the five edits that inspired the Bolshevik revolution; and an insert booklet featuring a new essay by film author and historian Amy Sargeant.

This collection may contain the best-available home video editions of these films.

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