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Helena.
Der Untergang Trojas
(1924)

This historical drama, directed by Manfred Noa, stars Edy Darclea, with Vladimir Gajdarov, Albert Steinrück, Adele Sandrock, Carl de Vogt, Friedrich Ulmer, Carlo Aldini, Carl Lamac, Karl Wüstenhagen and Albert Bassermann.

Edition Filmmuseum
2015 DVD edition

Helena. Der Untergang Trojas: 1 Teil. Der Raub der Helena (1924), color-tinted black & white, 100 minutes, not rated, with Helena. Der Untergang Trojas: 2 Teil. Die Zerstörung Trojas (1924), color-tinted black & white and color-toned black & white, 119 minutes, not rated.

Edition Filmmuseum, 90,
UPC/EAN 9-783958-600904, ISBN 978-3-95860-090-4.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 6.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 50 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; German language intertitles, optional English and French language subtitles; 10 chapter stops (part one) and 12 chapter stops (part two); 20-page insert booklet; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; €29,95.
Release date: November 2015 (second edition, September 2016).
Country of origin: Germany •

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

This DVD edition has been mastered from the restoration version of the film undertaken by Filmmuseum München, which is a conflation of a good to very-good 35mm print of the Italian release version of the film, a very-good 35mm print of the Russian release version, a very-good 35mm print of the Belgian release version; a very-good 35mm print of the Spanish release version; and a very-good 35mm print of the Swiss release version. All scans of the source materials show a moderate amount of dust, speckling, schmutz, vertical emulsion scratches, exposure fluctuations, and other print flaws. The overall picture quality is very-good.

The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed on piano and tuned percussion by Joachim Bärenz and Christian Roderburg.

Supplemental material includes selected scene-by-scene comparisons of the source prints utilized for the restoration with alternate takes and camera positions (45 minutes); alternate scenes and rushes (35 minutes); intertitles from the Italian source print (15 minutes); and a 20-page trilingual (German, English and French) insert booklet with writings by Stefan Drössler about the production, reception and reconstruction of the film.

This is our recommended home video edition of the film. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.

This Region 0 PAL DVD edition is available directly from . . .