Slovak Film Institute (frame 1992)

Slovak Film Institute

Reviewed by dvdfreak

Published on Monday 04th September 2006
Last modified on Friday 30th January 2026, 07:37:23 PM


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Label:  Slovak Film Institute (Slovakia)

Region:  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8
RCE protection:  No
Copyright protection system:  None

Disc type:  DVD9 (the data occupy 5.08 GB)

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames):  1:17:07.07

Video:  PAL
Aspect ratio:  1.30:1 non-anamorphic


Bitrate (min / avg / max):  2.08 / 4.29 / 7.13 Mbps

Bitrate (min / avg / max)

Audio:
 

Slovak Dolby Digital 2.0 mono* / 256 kbps

Subtitles: Slovak, English, German & French

Menus available in: Slovak & English


Special features:
 

  • Short films
    • "Svatá Jana" ("Saint Jane," 7:17, in Czech**)
    • "Vierunddreissig Tage absoluter Ruhe"
      ("34 Days of Absolute Peace," 17:19, music only***)
    • "Předpověď: Nula" ("Forecast: Zero," 48:22, in Czech**)
  • About "Wild Lilies" (5 pages, in Slovak & English)
  • Press reviews (3 pages, in Slovak & English)
  • Profiles (in Slovak & English)
    • Elo Havetta (3 pages)
    • Vincent Šikula (2, resp. 3 pages)
    • Dodo Šimončič (2 pages)
    • Zdeněk Liška (2, resp. 3 pages)
    • Alfréd Benčič (2 pages)
  • Before & after restoration (0:56)
  • Photogallery (24 pages)

Notes: Only available in SFI's "Elo Havetta Collection" 2-disc set,
together with "Celebration in the Botanical Garden."

I'd like to point out a strange thing I found while watching the film. Take a look at the examples below, and note that the face, and the hands of the monk in the picture in the left, the hands of one of the men in the picture in the middle, and the boy's hand in the last picture seem to be transparent! This might have been caused by the colour filters used in the film, but I suspect it could be a side-effect of the restoration process. If anyone knows the real cause of this phenomenon, I'd be grateful for his / her ;-) help in clarifying this issue.

Slovak Film Institute (frame 48328 | 65000 | 98183)
SFI & The Daily SME (frame 48375 | 65047 | 98232)
STV 2 DVB (frame 48233 | 64836 | 98011)

Slovak Film Institute (frame 48328)





*difference between channels is -62.75 dB (0.07 %)
**with optional Czech & English subtitles
***with optional Slovak & English subtitles
for on-screen text in German


SFI & The Daily SME (frame 2035)

SFI & The Daily SME

Reviewed by dvdfreak

Published on Wednesday 31st October 2007
Last modified on Friday 30th January 2026, 07:37:24 PM


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Label:  SFI & The Daily SME (Slovakia)

Region:  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8
RCE protection:  No
Copyright protection system:  None

Disc type:  DVD5 (the data occupy 3.32 GB)

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames):  1:17:10.01

Video:  PAL
Aspect ratio:  1.35:1 non-anamorphic


Bitrate (min / avg / max):  0.16 / 5.50 / 7.33 Mbps

Bitrate (min / avg / max)

Audio:
 

Slovak Dolby Digital 2.0 mono* / 256 kbps

Subtitles: Slovak & English

Menus available in: Slovak & English


Special features:
 

  • About the movie (2 pages, in Slovak & English)
  • Biographies (2 pages each, in Slovak & English)
    • Elo Havetta
    • Vincent Šikula
    • Jozef [Dodo] Šimončič
  • Press coverage (3 pages, in Slovak & English)
  • Photogallery (8 movie stills)

  • 16-page booklet (in Slovak)

Notes: This film is a part of the "Slovak Cinema of the 70's" DVD edition
(released by SFI & The Daily SME), which also includes:


WOW! This really caught me unawares - I was expecting the transfer to be identical with SFI's 2006 release (reviewed above), but whoa - this seems like a completely different film! The sharpness - previously non-existent - is simply magnificent here, and we see a good deal more picture on all four sides, however - and I'm afraid this might count against the new disc - the colouring is all but gone! As I've never seen "Wild Lilies" theatrically, I cannot vouch for one version or the other, but considering that even the crappy TV broadcast below shows some kind of colour tinting, I'd say the old one is more truthful to the original.

Extras-wise, there's no need to engage my brain, and the Freaxcar ;-) goes to SFI's 2006 release for Havetta's short films...

*difference between channels is -40.98 dB (0.89 %)


STV 2 DVB (frame 1928)

STV 2 DVB

Reviewed by dvdfreak

Last modified on Friday 30th January 2026, 07:37:24 PM

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Label:  STV 2 DVB (Slovakia)

Region:  n/a
RCE protection:  n/a
Copyright protection system:  n/a

Disc type:  n/a

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames):  1:16:58.11

Video:  PAL
Aspect ratio:  1.30:1 non-anamorphic


Bitrate (min / avg / max):  3.33 / 3.90 / 5.80 Mbps

Bitrate (min / avg / max)

Audio:
 

Slovak MPEG-1 Layer 2 2.0 mono* / 192 kbps

Subtitles: None

Menus available in: None

Special features:
 

None

Notes: This is a recording from STV 2's digital satellite broadcast.
Its purpose here is to provide a kind of reference for
the two SFI DVD releases reviewed above.

*difference between channels is -47.53 dB (0.42 %)


SFI / Blu-ray (frame 1984)

SFI / Blu-ray

Reviewed by dvdfreak

Published on Friday 30th January 2026
Last modified on Friday 13th February 2026, 10:52:32 PM


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Label:  Slovak Film Institute (Slovakia)

Region:  A, B & C (?)
RCE protection:  n/a
Copyright protection system:  AACS

Disc type:  BD25 (the data occupy 22.84 GB)

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames):  1:20:19.04

Video:  MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p24
Aspect ratio:  1.66:1


Bitrate (min / avg / max):  0.00 / 24.99 / 46.12 Mbps

Bitrate (min / avg / max)

Audio:
 

Slovak DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono* / 1,559 kbps
Slovak audio descriptive in DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono* / 1,568 kbps

Subtitles: Slovak, Slovak for the deaf and hard of hearing & English

Menus available in: Slovak & English

Note: The menus are 1080i50!


Special features:
 

  • "Slávnosť osamelej palmy" documentary ("Celebration of a Lonely Palm," 39:38,
    MPEG-4 AVC, 1080i50, with the same audio & subtitle tracks as the main feature)
  • Trailer (plays in the background under the disc menus, 2:09,
    MPEG-2, 1080i50, in Slovak Dolby Digital 2.0 / 448 kbps)

Notes: Only available in SFI's "Elo Havetta Collection" 2-disc set, together with:


& 44-page booklet (in Slovak & English).

Comes in a foldout digipak; Elo Havetta's profile (1 page, in Slovak & English)
is printed on the side of the digipak itself.

To see the screenshots in glorious Full HD 1080, click here.

*difference between channels is -Inf. dB (0.00 %),
resp. -Inf. dB (0.00 %)

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