Variete 1925 uncut version new soundtrack torrent

Varieté (1925)

German title: Varieté, also known by the alternative titles, Variety, Variétés, Jealousy or Vaudeville)

Country: Germany, 1925
Director: Ewald André Dupont
Cinematography: Karl W. Freund, Carl Hoffmann
Starring: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti


A rare jewel of late-expressionist German cinema, undeservedly neglected today, offered here with a completely new, inedited soundtrack*.


TV Rip
AVI (Generic MPEG-4)
Codec: Xvid
Resolution: 496x368
Frame rate: 24.94 fps
Data size: 1023.60 MB
Data rate: 1441.22 kbits/s
Audio: Stereo, 48.000 kHz
German title cards
English, Spanish subtitles (srt)
Duration: 1:42:41

"Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations''. But he longs for his former glamorous life in the circus. When he meets the orphan Berta-Marie, he falls under her spell and leaves his wife and young son behind.

The trapeze scenes are set in the Berlin Wintergarten theatre and includes footage of various vaudeville acts of the period (including the famous Tiller Girls). The camera swings from long shot to close-up, like the acrobats.


*ABOUT THIS NEW SOUNDTRACK:
Extracts of the lively, jazzy and Weymar-tinted music by Hanns Eisler are mainly heard throughout. His contemporary, Kurt Weill's concerto for violin and wind instruments is also featured, plus passages from Bartok's string quartets Nos. 4,5,6 for the most dramatic scenes.
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https://sites.google.com/site/jolonquessoundtracks/variete-1925

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This is the original, 102 min. film. All other available releases are truncated versions. Alas, this only version found, from a Polish TV relay, is of poor quality, although it is worth seeing for its various excellences until, hopefully, some company decides to rescue and release this wonderful movie with a decent quality.
Many cites in the United States were shocked by the film's immorality, and Paramount deleted the first two reels (twenty minutes) entirely...
read more here:
https://sites.google.com/site/jolonquessoundtracks/variete-1925