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Fritz Lang
The Early Works
(1919-1921)

Contents: Harakiri (1919), The Wandering Shadow (1920) and Four Around the Woman (1921).

This collection of three early Fritz Lang feature films includes an adaptation of Madame Butterfly, a drama of sex scandal, flight and redemption, and a crime-romance drama that anticipates some of Lang’s later works.

Kino Classics
2012 DVD edition

Fritz Lang: The Early Works (1919-1921), color-tinted and color-toned black & white, 238 minutes total, not rated, including Harakiri (1919), color-tinted and color-toned black & white, 87 minutes, not rated, The Wandering Shadow (1920), color-tinted and color-toned black & white, 67 minutes, not rated, and Four Around the Woman (1921), color-toned black & white, 84 minutes, not rated.

Kino Lorber, K1092, UPC 7-38329-10922-6.
Three single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD discs; 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 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard three-disc DVD keepcase in cardboard slipcase; $39.95.
Release date: 6 November 2012.
Country of origin: USA