Filmexport Home Video
Reviewed by dvdfreak
Last modified on Monday 20th April 2020, 11:07:52 PM
| | Label: Filmexport Home Video (Czech Republic)
| Region: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 | RCE protection: No | Copyright protection system: None
| Disc type: DVD9 (the data occupy 7.60 GB)
| Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:38:03.14
| Video: PAL | Aspect ratio: 1.29:1 non-anamorphic |
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Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0.43 / 4.31 / 8.74 Mbps
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Audio: | Czech Dolby Digital 2.0 mono* / 192 kbps
| Subtitles: | Czech for the deaf and hard of hearing English
| Menus available in: | Czech
| | Special features: |
- Introduction by Pavel Taussig, a film historian (15:28, in Czech)
- Photogallery (2:48, 32 film stills)
- Biographies & filmographies (in Czech)
- Staff
- Alfréd Radok - director (4 pages)
- Erik Kolár - story, screenplay (2 pages)
- Mojmír Drvota - screenplay (3 pages)
- Josef Střecha - cinematography (9 pages)
- Jiří Sternwald - music (6 pages)
- Cast
- Baldová Zdena (6 pages)
- Kohout Eduard (8 pages)
- Krejča Otomar (7 pages)
- Očásek Viktor (6 pages)
- Rašilov Saša (6 pages)
- Waleská Blanka (6 pages)
+ bibliography (1 page, in Czech) - Contemporary documentation (1:07, in Czech)
- ČRo 1 - Radiožurnál ad (0:31, in Czech)
- Seznam.cz ad (0:31, in Czech)
- About the DVD
- Filmexport Home Video (3 pages, in Czech)
- National Film Archive (2 pages, in Czech & English)
- DiViDi magazine (1 page, in Czech)
- "Zlatý fond" on DVD (49 pages, in Czech)
- Other films available (11 pages, in Czech)
| Notes: | "Distant Journey" shares the disc with "Dědeček automobil" ("Vintage Car"), another film by Alfréd Radok.
*difference between channels is -77.05 dB (0.01 %) |
ČT art HD DVB
Reviewed by dvdfreak
Last modified on Tuesday 21st April 2020, 09:55:09 AM
| | Label: ČT art HD DVB (Czech Republic)
| Region: n/a | RCE protection: n/a | Copyright protection system: n/a
| Disc type: n/a
| Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:39:02.10
| Video: MPEG-4 AVC, 1080i50 | Aspect ratio: 1.37:1 |
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Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0.00 / 3.07 / 10.16 Mbps
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Audio: | Czech Dolby Digital 2.0 mono* / 448 kbps
| Subtitles: | None
| Menus available in: | None
| | Special features: | None
| Notes: | "Distant Journey" has recently undergone a full-blown 4K restoration supervised by the National Film Archive and carried out at Universal Productions Partners (UPP). World première of the new resto was held at this year's (2020) The Berlinale International Film Festival - two months later, the film aired on the Czech TV channel art. Note that due to the broadcast's poor bitrate, the screenshots in our gallery are not to be taken as representative of the restored film's actual picture quality. As far as the restoration itself goes, however, there are a few things worth pointing out: - The opening title sequence has been fully reinstated:
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- The (presumably automated?) scratch & spot removal appears to have caused some collateral damage - observe the glittering crystal of the chandelier / the "double-vision-inducing" text displacement effects / the water dripping off Dr Kaufmann's hand:
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- While the NFA's decision not to tamper with the authentic WWII footage is kinda understandable (FEX tried it, but didn't make a very good job of it), their insisting on keeping the cue blips untouched simply defies all common sense (props to FEX there!):
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To see the screenshots in glorious , click here. |
| | *difference between channels is -111.69 dB (0.00 %) |
ČT art / Streaming Media
Reviewed by standa.e
Last modified on Tuesday 19th May 2020, 09:32:57 PM
| | Label: ČT art (Czech Republic)
| Region: n/a | RCE protection: n/a | Copyright protection system: n/a
| Disc type: n/a
| Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:39:02.12
| Video: MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p25 | Aspect ratio: 1.37:1 |
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Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0.82 / 6.00 / 10.98 Mbps
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Audio: | Czech AAC 2.0 mono / 128 kbps
| Subtitles: | None
| Menus available in: | None
| | Special features: | None
| Notes: | At the time of this writing (April 20, 2020), the restored "Distant Journey" is available to stream (in Full HD too!) on the Czech Television's website. Interestingly enough, the pale green tinge the satellite recording exhibits is completely absent here... Weirdness, yes? |
To see the screenshots in glorious , click here. |
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Filmexport Home Video | ČT art HD DVB | ČT art / Streaming Media
Filmexport Home Video | ČT art HD DVB | ČT art / Streaming Media
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