Phantom [videorecording] / a Flicker Alley presentation ; produced by Uco-Film of Decla-Bioscop ; by Gerhart Hauptmann ; adapted for the screen by Thea von Harbou ; direction F. W. Murnau ; digital edition produced by Jeffery Masino for Turner Classic Movies.
Based on the novel of the same title by Gerhart Hauptmann. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1922. Restored for Turner Classic Movies in collaboration with the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung ; restoration features a speed-corrected NTSC film transfer with original tints, a new, digitally recorded orchestral score and English-language intertitles. Special features : Invitation to Phantom, a documentary by UCLA film historian Janet Bergstrom ; The colors of Phantom, a booklet essay by Luciano Berriatúa and Camille Blot-Wellens ; cast and crew biographies ; special documents gallery. Alfred Abel, Frieda Richard, Lya de Putti.
Summary:
Alfred Abel 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 woman with whom he has had a fateful encounter.
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