Batalion [Battalion] ◾︎ Přemysl Pražský ◾︎ 1927

National Film Archive

Reviewed by dvdfreak

Last modified on Thursday 19th March 2020, 10:45:10 PM

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Label: National Film Archive (Czech Republic)

Region: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8

RCE protection: No

Copyright protection system: None

Disc type: DVD9 (the data occupy 7.62 GB)

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:35:31.07

Video: PAL

Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 non-anamorphic

Bitrate (min / avg / max): 5.29 / 6.30 / 7.25 Mbps

Audio:

Musical score by Kryštof Mařatka in Dolby Digital 2.0 / 256 kbps

Subtitles:

Czech (intertitles)
English

Menus available in:

Czech & English

Special features:

Interviews (in Czech*)
- Radomír D. Kokeš - analysis of the film (8:04)
- Ivan Klimeš on the context of Czech social realism (12:57)
- Kryštof Mařatka on composing music for the film (11:08)
Archival footage
- "Píseň života" ("Song of Life," 1924) - contemporary social melodrama (21:17, Czech intertitles*)
- Songs from the 1937 sound version of "Battalion" (6:28, in Czech)
- Newsreel shot featuring director Přemysl Pražský (5:03, Czech intertitles*)
- Kryštof Mařatka sings the song "Everything Is Gone" (2:23, in Czech)
Photogallery (2:00, 20 film stills)
About (1 page, in Czech & English)