Cinema Retro has received the following press release from Kino Classics:
New
York, NY -- July 9, 2020 -- Kino Classics is proud to announce the Blu-ray and
DVD releases of two pioneering films in the history of Queer cinema: Reinhold
Schünzel's dazzling romantic musical Victor and Victoria (1933), and Leontine
Sagan's landmark of lesbian cinema Mädchen in Uniform (1931). Both films have
been restored by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.
Kino
Lorber released both of these important films (along with Carl Theodor Dreyer's
1924 silent classic Michael) as part of the "Pioneers of Queer
Cinema" virtual cinema program on Kino Marquee for Pride Month.
Victoria
and Victoria (1933) is now available on Blu-ray and DVD. The Blu-ray and DVD
feature audio commentary by film historian Gaylyn Studlar.
In
this dazzling musical romance, a young woman (Renate Müller), unable to find
work as a music hall singer, partners with a down-and-out thespian (Hermann Thimig)
to revamp her act. Pretending to be a man performing in drag, Victoria becomes
the toast of the international stage. But she soon finds that her playful
bending of genders enmeshes her personal and professional life in a tangle of
unexpected complications. Produced in the final days of the Weimar Republic,
Victor and Victoria received limited exposure in the United States, and is
today best known by Blake Edwards’s 1982 remake and the 1995 Broadway
production. Viewers will be delighted to discover that the original is every
bit as charming and outrageous, reminiscent of the sly sex comedies of Ernst
Lubitsch and Billy Wilder.
Directed
by Reinhold Schünzel
Starring:
Renate Müller, Hermann Thimig, Friedel Pisetta, Fritz Odemar, Aribert Wäscher,
Adolf Wohlbrück
Blu-ray
and DVD Street Date: Now Available
1933
| Germany | B&W | 99 Min. | Not Rated | 1920x1080p (1.20:1) | German with
English subtitles
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Mädchen
in Uniform (1931) will be available on Blu-ray and DVD July 14, 2020, and
includes audio commentary by film historian Jenni Olson.
As
a new student at an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with the
compassionate teacher Fräulein von Bernburg, and her feelings are requited.
Experiencing her first love, lonely Manuela also discovers the complexities
that come with an illicit romance. This artfully composed landmark of lesbian
cinema – and an important anti-fascist film – was the first of just three films
directed by Leontine Sagan.
Blu-ray
and DVD Street Date: July 14, 2020
Directed
by Leontine Sagan and Carl Froelich
Starring
Hertha Thiele, Dorothea Wieck, Emilia Unda, Erika Mann, Hedy Krilla
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