The Criterion Collection

Directed by: Carl Th. Dreyer
Featuring: Renee Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, Andre Berley, Maurice Schutz, Antonin Artaud, Gilbert Dalleu, Jean d'Yd, Louis Ravet
Year: 1928
Time: 82 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 62
Release Date: March 20 2018
MSRP:
$39.95
Blu-ray
1 Disc | BD-50
1.33:1 ratio
Musical Score 2.0 PCM Stereo
Subtitles: English
Region A
Alternate presentation of the film at 20 frames per second with original Danish intertitles
Three scores: Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light, a choral and orchestral work performed by vocal group Anonymous 4, soloist Susan Narucki, and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Choir; another by Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory and Portishead’s Adrian Utley; and the third composed and performed by pianist Mie Yanashita
Audio essay by Casper Tybjerg, a Dreyer scholar from the University of Copenhagen
New interview with Robert Einhorn
New conversation between Will Gregory and Adrian Utley
New video essay by Casper Tybjerg exploring the debate over the film’s frame rate
Interview from 1995 with actor Renée Falconetti’s daughter and biographer, Hélène Falconetti
A history of Passions many versions, with clips
An extensive production design archive
An essay by critic Mark Le Fanu, a 1929 director’s statement by Carl Th. Dreyer, and the full libretto for Voices of Light