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Athanor

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Last modified on Thursday 19th March 2020, 11:56:58 PM

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Label:  Athanor / Pragofilm (Czech Republic)

Region:  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8
RCE protection:  No
Copyright protection system:  CSS / CPPM

Disc type:  DVD9 (the data occupy 7.47 GB)

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames):  1:44:33.00*

Video:  PAL
Aspect ratio:  1.78:1 anamorphic


Bitrate (min / avg / max):  0.16 / 5.50 / 9.06 Mbps

Bitrate (min / avg / max)

Audio:
 

Czech Dolby Digital 5.1 / 448 kbps

Subtitles: Czech for the hearing impaired, English, French, Spanish, Italian & German

Menus available in: Czech & English


Special features:
 

  • Making of (14:01, in Czech**)
  • Making of (Technological Process) (9:59, in Czech**)
  • "A Dream About a Dream" (22:51, in Czech**)
  • Trailer 1 (1:09, in Czech***)
  • Trailer 2 (2:03, in Czech***)
  • Alternative (rejected) ending (1:24, in Czech***)
  • Work-in-progress photography (3:34, 71 film stills)


  • Photo-collage (0:55, 18 photos)
  • Poster (0:30)
  • DVD-ROM features
    • Hi-res poster
    • "Instead of an Explication" (PDF, 1 page, in Czech & English)

Notes: 
This looks very good for SD (the film itself is, of course, excellent :-D). I wouldn't say no to a Blu-ray, but I guess we have to be thankful for what we've got, as the film probably didn't do very well sales-wise here; can't really say the cinema was packed when we went to see it - there were 11 (!) people besides me and my wife, and 2 of them walked out halfway through the film. :-P Well, here's hoping the DVD does better! (c:

Oh, in case you're wondering what I meant by the 1st footnote below (*) - basically, there's no way to play the entire film in Czech with subtitles, as Švankmajer's (hilarious) intro is not subtitled (well, it is - in Czech HoH ;-)), so "non-Czech" speakers need to go the "intro w/ voice-over + the rest subtitled" way (no worries though - I hear that's how the film was presented at festivals abroad)...

*6 different video "angles" are provided for the first 4:22 of the film. They consist of an introduction by Jan Švankmajer (3:16, in Czech, resp. Czech with English, French, Spanish, Italian or German voice-over — NO subtitles) & the opening title sequence (1:06, in Czech, English, French, Spanish, Italian, resp. German). The choice depends on the selected menu language, even though the actual menus are only available in Czech & English (i.e. selecting French, Spanish, Italian or German triggers the respective voice-​over, but the menus default to English)
**with optional Czech for the hearing impaired & English subtitles
***with the same subtitle tracks as the main feature


Athanor (frame 5760)

Athanor

Reviewed by dvdfreak

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Label:  Athanor (Czech Republic)

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

Disc type:  DVD9 (the data occupy 7.56 GB)

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames):  1:44:33.00*

Video:  PAL
Aspect ratio:  1.78:1 anamorphic


Bitrate (min / avg / max):  0.16 / 5.50 / 9.06 Mbps

Bitrate (min / avg / max)

Audio:
 

Czech Dolby Digital 5.1 / 448 kbps

Subtitles: Czech for the hearing impaired, English, French, Spanish, Italian & German

Menus available in: Czech & English


Special features:
 

  • Making of (14:01, in Czech**)
  • Making of (Technological Process) (9:59, in Czech**)
  • "A Dream About a Dream" (22:51, in Czech**)
  • Trailer 1 (1:09, in Czech***)
  • Trailer 2 (2:03, in Czech***)
  • Alternative (rejected) ending (1:24, in Czech***)
  • Work-in-progress photography (3:34, 71 film stills)
  • Photo-collage (2:46, 55 photos)
  • Poster (0:30, in Czech & English)
  • "Instead of an Explication" (2 pages, in Czech & English)
  • DVD-ROM features
    • Hi-res poster (JPG, in Czech & PDF, in English)
    • "Instead of an Explication" (PDF, 2 pages, in Czech & English)

Notes: Only available in "The Films of Jan Švankmajer" 6-disc set, together with:



As far as I can tell, the changes compared to the original release are minimal: different menus & distributor logos + the [slightly augmented] extras in italics above.
     The video streams themselves are bitwise identical; thus, at the bottom of this page, you'll find only one set of screenshots representing both Athanor DVDs.

*6 different video "angles" are provided for the first 4:22 of the film. They consist of an introduction by Jan Švankmajer (3:16, in Czech, resp. Czech with English, French, Spanish, Italian or German voice-over — NO subtitles) & the opening title sequence (1:06, in Czech, English, French, Spanish, Italian, resp. German). The choice depends on the selected menu language, even though the actual menus are only available in Czech & English (i.e. selecting French, Spanish, Italian or German triggers the respective voice-​over, but the menus default to English)
**with optional Czech for the hearing impaired & English subtitles
***with the same subtitle tracks as the main feature


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Nippon Columbia / Blu-ray

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Label:  Nippon Columbia (Japan)

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

Disc type:  BD50 (the data occupy 38.35 GB)

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames):  1:48:57.17

Video:  MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p24/1.001
Aspect ratio:  1.78:1


Bitrate (min / avg / max):  0.00 / 34.71 / 49.96 Mbps

Bitrate (min / avg / max)

Audio:
 

Czech DTS-HD Master Audio 6.1 / 3,513 kbps

Subtitles: Japanese

Menus available in: Japanese & English


Special features:
 

  • Making of (Technological Process) (10:00, MPEG-4 AVC, 1080i60/1.001, in Czech*)
  • Making of (14:02, MPEG-4 AVC, 1080i60/1.001, in Czech*)
  • Trailer 1 (2:10, in Czech DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1)
  • Trailer 2 (1:02, in Czech DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1)
  • Japanese trailer (1:51, in Japanese)

(Unless noted otherwise, all extras are MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p24/1.001, DTS-HD MA 2.0.)

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

*subtitled in Japanese


Athanor / Blu-ray (frame 5760)

Athanor / Blu-ray

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Label:  Athanor (Czech Republic)

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

Disc type:  BD25 (the data occupy 22.22 GB)

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames):  1:48:56.07*

Video:  MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p24/1.001
Aspect ratio:  1.78:1


Bitrate (min / avg / max):  0.00 / 16.99 / 42.00 Mbps

Bitrate (min / avg / max)

Audio:
 

Czech Dolby Digital 5.1 / 640 kbps

Subtitles: Czech for the hearing impaired, English, French, Spanish, Italian & German

Menus available in: Czech & English


Special features:
 

  • Making of (14:37, in Czech**)
  • Making of (Technological Process) (10:24, in Czech**)
  • "A Dream About a Dream" (23:50, in Czech**)
  • Trailer 1 (1:12, in Czech***)
  • Trailer 2 (2:08, in Czech***)
  • Alternative (rejected) ending (1:28, in Czech***)
  • Work-in-progress photography (3:33, 71 film stills, MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p24/1.001)
  • Photo-collage (2:45, 55 photos, MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p24/1.001)
  • Poster (0:35, MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p24/1.001, in Czech & English)****
  • "Instead of an Explication" (2 pages, in Czech & English)

(Unless noted otherwise, all extras are MPEG-4 AVC, 720p24/1.001, DD 2.0 / 224 kbps.)

Notes: Only available in "The Films of Jan Švankmajer" 7-disc set, together with:



This Blu-ray collection was one of the perks for the supporters of Švankmajer's Indiegogo campaign intended for co-financing his ultimate film, "Hmyz" ("Insect"), and it's not commercially available at the time of this writing.

This and the Japanese counterpart obviously come from the same master, the only difference being the more generous bitrate of the latter. Despite that, the 2 encodes are pretty much indistinguishable.

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

*6 different video "angles" are provided for the first 4:33 of the film. They consist of an introduction by Jan Švankmajer (3:24, in Czech, resp. Czech with English, French, Spanish, Italian or German voice-over — NO subtitles) & the opening title sequence (1:09, in Czech, English, French, Spanish, Italian, resp. German). The choice depends on the selected menu language, even though the actual menus are only available in Czech & English (i.e. selecting French, Spanish, Italian or German triggers the respective voice-​over, but the menus default to English)
**with optional Czech for the hearing impaired & English subtitles
***with the same subtitle tracks as the main feature
****I failed to locate the hi-res version of the poster advertised in the clip:


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