The Man Who Laughs SFSFF played out against the backdrop

played out against the backdrop of an encroaching plague

monumental epic on the terrible wastage of war

the film uses Zola's tale of mid-1800s stock market speculation to comment on the 1920s greed-fueled fascination with global economies

and many more extraordinary techniques

who penned many a famous melodrama around the theme of the miscarriage of justice - a theme that must have had special appeal for the unjustly displaced technicians and artists of Ermolieff's Moscow and Yalta studios

The Man Who Laughs SFSFF played out against the backdropOUT OF PRINT BLU RAY DVD DUAL FORMAT EDITION Flicker Alley, in partnership with Universal Pictures, are proud to present Universal Pictures new 4K restoration of the 1928 silent classic, The Man Who Laughs, accompanied by a newly recorded orchestral score by the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra. The composers, in reel order, are Phil Carlson, Benjamin Knorr, Marcelle Simpson, Sonia Coronado, Daniel Tauber, Emi Nishida, and Dai Haraguchi. Based on the