Classic Russian Cinema in Hyperkino (New additions)
Classic Russian cinema on DVD, presented in the innovative Hyperkino format created by Natascha Drubek and Nikolai Izvolov, produced by Ruscico and distributed in the UK by MovieMail.
After a strong response to the initial selection, this May we've added four new titles - The Childhood of Maxim Gorky, The Girl with the Hat Box, Outskirts and The Heir to Genghis Khan (aka Storm Over Asia).
This range of ten Russian films – which includes seven UK DVD premieres – are presented in 2-disc ‘hyperkino editions’:
Disc 1 contains the standard film in the best available print, with optional subtitles.
Disc 2 contains the film, plus numerous scene-specific annotations, video clips and documents (in Russian and in English). These can be viewed on screen, contextualising the film and enhancing the viewer’s understanding.
This innovative format works extremely well and is one of the most exciting developments in DVD for years. It is especially valuable for important works of world cinema whose historical contexts crave further exploration.
Film Listing
Outskirts (Hyperkino Edition)
Boris Barnet, 1933
A tender love story between a Russian girl and a German prisoner of war given permission to work in her village, Outskirts is Boris Barnet's first sound film... More
£19.99 DVD
By the Bluest of Seas (Hyperkino Edition)
Boris Barnet, 1936
A beautiful film from Barnet that encourages you to forget any stereotypes you might have of early Russian cinema, By the Bluest of Seas begins with two sail... More
£19.99 DVD
October (Hyperkino Edition)
Sergei Eisenstein, 1927
Commissioned for the tenth anniversary of the 1917 Revolution, the celebratory October: Ten Days That Shook the World is a thrilling reconstruction of the ev... More
£19.99 DVD
Strike (Hyperkino Edition)
Sergei Eisenstein, 1924
Trying out new ideas which he was to go on and make famous the following year in Battleship Potemkin, Strike – Eisenstein’s first full-length feature – depic... More
£19.99 DVD
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (Hyperkino Edition)
Mark Donskoi, 1938
The first part of Donskoi's Gorky Trilogy, followed by 'My Apprenticeship' and 'My Universities', The Childhood of Maxim Gorky saw Donskoi rise to the top ra... More
£19.99 DVD
Engineer Prite's Project (Hyperkino Edition)
Lev Kuleshov, 1918
Lev Kuleshov’s directorial debut is a landmark work of Russian cinema, being the first film to use what came to be known as ‘Soviet montage’. Although Kulesh... More
£19.99 DVD
The Great Consoler (Hyperkino Edition)
Lev Kuleshov, 1933
Addressing the question of the role that a creative person should play in society, The Great Consoler is a melodrama based upon the life of the American auth... More
£19.99 DVD
Happiness (Hyperkino Edition)
Alexander Medvedkin, 1934
Aka 'A Tale of a Hapless Mercenary Khmyr, His Horse-Wife Anna, His Well-Fed Neighbor Foka and Also of a Priest, a Nun and Other Old Relics'. The film that... More
£19.99 DVD
The Girl with the Hat Box (Hyperkino Edition)
Boris Barnet, 1927
A light and lyrical comedy, The Girl with the Hat Box sees Natasha and her grandfather living in a cottage near Moscow, making hats for Madame Irène. Madame ... More
£19.99 DVD
The Heir to Genghis Khan (Hyperkino Edition)
Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1928
The last part in a trilogy of revolutionary films by Vsevolod Pudovkin, alongside Mother (1926) and The End of St. Petersburg (1927). Based upon the novel... More
£19.99 DVD
