[LEN-E] Nosferatu (The Ultimate Two-Disc Edition)

[Thomas Köhler]

Hi Helmut,

no, no plans for a new "Caligari" anywhere, which is completely strange 
to me. There's not even a German disc of that film which more or less 
started German silent cinema as we know it today. The restoration that 
is out in France and Spain is from the early 90s and could be better, of 
course, perhaps that is why everyone's waiting. The Murnau Stiftung is 
doing a new "Nibelungen" at the moment, and this new (tinted, and 
longer) version will also come from MoC once it's finished.

I have little hope for "Der große Sprung". I fear that nobody could 
release it because there is no new music yet, and apart from us Leni 
fans here, nobody seems to care all that much for it.

Talking of silents, something more Leni related: I recently watched the 
dvd of  "Ruf des Nordens" by Luis Trenker (directed by Nunzio Malasomma, 
but very much a true Trenker project), made in 1929. This is not a great 
film, but it was interesting to see that THIS seems to be the first 
German Polar film, four years before "SOS Eisberg". Even the story is 
similar: a young woman instigates an expedition to the Arctic to find 
out what has become of her missing explorer father, and of course she 
goes with the crew and has a brief affair with Luis. Otherwise, typical 
Fanck/Trenker stuff: heroic comrades, lots of ice, snow and icebears. No 
way as spectacular as Fanck, though, but historically interesting, and I 
wonder whether Fanck was aware of the film before he made "Eisberg".
Obviously, here as with "Der große Sprung", no music track exists, so 
the only audio you get is Trenker telling amusing anecdotes about the 
film while it is running. That might be an option for "Sprung" as well, 
and if you find the talk annoying, you can always play it silent, of course.

Best
Thomas



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