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Sex in Chains
[Geschlecht in Fesseln]
(1928)

Kino on Video
2004 DVD edition

Sex in Chains (1928), black & white, 107 minutes, not rated.

Kino International, K390, UPC 7-38329-03902-8.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; German language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; 12 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 14 December 2004.
Country of origin: USA

Kino International presents this DVD edition, produced by Stefan Droessler and David Shepard, of William Dieterle’s homosexual-themed film prepared from the reconstructed 1996 35mm restoration print held by the Filmmuseum München. The bulk of the restoration utilizes a censored 35mm print from 1930 held by Gosfilmofond in Russia, with footage missing from the Russian print taken from a 35mm print with French intertitles held by Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek. The original German intertitles were restored from German censorship records.

The film is accompanied by a piano music score by Pasquale Perris or Joachim Bärenz (information is conflicting in the edition).

This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition is available directly from . . .

Edition Filmmuseum
2006 DVD edition

Anders als die Andern [Different from the Others] (1919), black & white, 52 minutes, not rated, with Gesetze der Liebe. Aus dem Tagebuch eines Sexualwissenschaftlers (1927), black & white, 101 minutes, not rated, and Geschlecht in Fesseln [Sex in Chains] (1928), black & white, 108 minutes, not rated.

Edition Filmmuseum, 04, UPC/EAN 4-260100-330025.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD disc (two DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 50 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; German language intertitles, optional English, French and Spanish language subtitles; chapter stops; 16-page insert booklet; standard DVD keepcase; €19,95.
Release date: September 2006 (expanded second edition, July 2007; third edition, January 2011; expanded fourth edition, January 2022).
Country of origin: Germany

This PAL DVD edition has been produced by Filmmuseum München and the Goethe-Institut, München.

The film is presented with an improvised piano score performed by Joachim Bärenz. Gesetze der Liebe (1927) is presented with a music score by Bernd Schultheis.

Supplemental material includes a DVD-ROM section (in German), including original documents by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, and correspondence between Richard Oswald and Veit Harlan; featurette “Gefährliche Neigungen: Die Skandalgeschichte von ‘Anders als die andern’” (7 minutes); and a 16-page bilignual (German and English) insert booklet with an essay by Stefan Drössler. The edition was recently expanded to include Sex in Chains [Geschlecht in Fesseln] (1928), which was not included in earlier editions.

This high-quality edition is recommended to all. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.

This Region 0 PAL DVD edition is available directly from . . .