The Phantom Carriage Blu-ray

Release Year: 1921

Runtime: 108 min

Director: Victor Sjöström

Cast: Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, Astrid Holm, Concordia Selander

Studios: SF Studios

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.

Special Features:

New digital restoration done in collaboration with the Archival Film Collections of the Swedish Film Institute

Two scores

two new scores by the Swedish composer Matti Bye and the experimental duo KTL.

Audio commentary featuring film historian Casper Tybjerg

Interview with Ingmar Bergman

excerpts from the 1981 documentary Victor Sjöström: A Portrait by Gösta Werner

The Bergman Connection

an original and new essay by film historian and Bergman scholar Peter Cowie on the film's influences on Bergman

Footage of the construction of the Råsunda studio where The Phantom Carriage was the inaugural production

New and improved English subtitle translation

PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by screenwriter and filmmaker Paul Mayersberg

Technical Specifications:

• Tinted Color
• Silent
• Swedish Intertitles
• English Subtitles
• 1.37:1 Aspect Ratio