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DVD Box: Joris Ivens – Wereldcineast (5 DVDs, 2008)

Includes the films Komsomol (Pesn o gerojach), Nieuwe Gronden and Rain, each with music by Hanns Eisler, as well as further film classics by Joris Ivens.

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DVD: Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1 DVD, NTSC, 2008)

DEFA-Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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DVD: Kuhle Wampe oder Wem gehört die Welt? (1 DVD, 2008)

Suhrkamp Filmedition 2

due for release in December 2008

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DVD: Walther Ruttmann, Berlin. Die Symphonie der Großstadt u.a. (2 DVDs, 2008)

Edition Filmmusem 39, due for release in November 2008.

Includes an attempted reconstruction of Ruttmann's short film Opus 3 with Eisler's retrospectively composed music.

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DVD: Auch Henker sterben. Collector's Edition (1 DVD, 2007)

Original title: Hangmen Also Die (USA 1943), Director: Fritz Lang, Screenplay: John Wexley, Original Story: Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Lang, Music: Hanns Eisler.

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DVD: Hanns Eislers Rockefeller Film Music Project 1940–1942, as a supplement to the special edition of the book Komposition für den Film by Theodor W. Adorno and Hanns Eisler (Suhrkamp, Frankfurt/M. 2006). Includes the films A Child Went Forth, White Flood and Regen (partially in several versions) as well as scenes from The Grapes of Wrath, all with music by Hanns Eisler.

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