Blu-ray Release: Farewell (Abschied)

Blu-ray Release Date: March 15, 2022
Price: Blu-ray $19.98
Studio: Kino Lorber


In a return to the realistic “Street films” of the German silent era, filmmaker Robert Siodmak (The Dark Mirror) directed this 1930 comedy-drama of intersecting lives within the rooms of a working-class boarding house.

Aribert Mog (Ecstasy) and Brigitte Horney (Munchausen) star as Peter and Hella, a young couple waiting for the opportunity to be married. When Peter receives a job opportunity in Dresden, he intends to surprise Hella with the news. But when word spreads among the other lodgers, it creates a series misunderstandings that could jeopardize the couple’s happiness.

Presented in German with English subtitles, the film’s Blu-ray incarnation features bonus material that includes an audio commentary by film historian Anthony Slide and an alternate “happy” ending.

 

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.