Hangmen Also Die [DVD]

Description

This classic is now restored in collaboration with the BFI and Pinewood Studios, and includes a one-minute sequence not available in the domestic release. Beautifully shot by James Wong Howe and tightly scripted by Brecht and Lang in their only collaboration, this noir-like espionage thriller is set in occupied Czechoslovakia and revolves around the successful plot by the Czech resistance to assassinate Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia Hangman Reinhard Heydrich and the hunt by the Gestapo to track down the killers. DVD FEATURES: Restoration of previously censored footage; New 30 minute featurette with historian and author Robert Gerwarth; Illustrated essay by Professor Peter Ellenbruch, University of Duisberg-Essen, Germany; Feature-length audio commentary by Richard Peña; 1942 German Newsreel; Restoration Before and After comparison; 2014 Re-release Trailer; In English and German.