Product Details

• Actors: Museums
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Russian
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: August 12, 2003
• Run Time: 162 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000A0WHB
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #97,054 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Six dazzling films explore the gems of the famous Hermitage collection, a museum famed for its diversity and scope which holds the world's most comprehensive collection of paintings and sculpture. Presenting an absorbing narrative of the collection's creation, histories of the great masters whose works adorn these fabulous rooms, and detailed looks at the works themselves, this invaluable collection will please both art lovers and newcomers alike. Includes Historical Materials on the Ancient Orient, Italy, the Renaissance, 17th-Century Holland, and French Painting.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Oh, What might have been!, September 1, 2003

By A Customer

One of the world's premier museums receives shoddy treatment in this DVD presentation. One of the values of Digital Video Discs is that the digital aspect permits crisp, clear pictures (in this case pictures of pictures in the great Hermitage Museum - St. Petersburg, Russia. This set of DVD's looks like it was processed through gauze. Some segments are sharper than others, but none are what I would call crisp. For the same dollars you can get the more comprehensive "Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg" also available from this site. It's a better buy for the same bucks. I wish this DVD was better.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Unrealized potential, August 21, 2003

By A Customer

What an opportunity lost. One of the the premier museums in the world and we receive what might have been passable on VHS but certainly not what we have come to expect on DVD. "Masterpieces of the Hermitage" is a better alternative to this DVD and at the same price. They are not the same even though they may be speaking about the same works of art. The technology of DVD lends itself so well to graphics arts presentation. Please utilize what is available to the max.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Low quality video and sound, November 9, 2007

By	Eugene Tenenbaum "reluctant reader" (Bronx, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The quality of video and sound of this DVD set is low like of its VHS original of 1992. A much better is another, newer set, titled Hermitage Masterpieces, of 2004, which was remasterd.