Plot

Flicker Alley, in partnership with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation is proud to present, Phantom, which marked a major turning point in the influential career and the groundbreaking style of cinema poet F.W. Murnau. In this beautifully reconstructed and restored edition from an amazingly detailed, original 1922 negative, Alfred Abel (Metropolis, Dr. Mabuse) plays Lorenz Lubota, a man obsessed with his own desires to achieve fame and wealth, who must confront the barriers of class keeping him from a women (Lya De Putti) with whom he has had a fateful encounter. Phantom paints a portrait of the corrupting influence of money, the conformity of societal norms, and the redemptive power of family

Featuring a magnificent new orchestral score by Robert Israel, this powerfully expressive and surprisingly insightful film is a triumph of German Weimar cinema and a wonderful collaboration of many of its most skilled artisans and recognizable performers.

Reviews:
"The disc is a dissertation on archival methodology..." -The Village Voice
"Here is one very happy marriage of 20th-century art and 21st-century technology." -The New York Times
"remarkable for the intensity of Murnau's expressiveness and psychological insight." -Los Angeles Times

Related Links

• IMDb Page
• The Village Voice

Customer Comments

• Reviewer: JoeyP on 09-Jun-2010

  This is a great restoration by a legendary director.

Additional Information

• Country: Germany
• Language: English, Silent
• Format: NTSC
• Aspect Ratio: 4:3 (standard TV)
• Color: Black & White
• Sound: Stereo