Im Staub der Sterne [V prachu hvězd] ◾︎ Gottfried Kolditz ◾︎ 1976

ICESTORM / NTSC

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Last modified on Wednesday 04th April 2018, 12:01:45 AM

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Label: ICESTORM Entertainment GmbH (Germany)

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

RCE protection: No

Copyright protection system: None

Disc type: DVD9 (the data occupy 6.39 GB)

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:35:18.28

Video: NTSC (fieldblended from PAL source)

Aspect ratio: 1.74:1 non-anamorphic*

Bitrate (min / avg / max): 2.67 / 6.02 / 8.74 Mbps

Audio:

German Dolby Digital 2.0 mono** / 192 kbps

Subtitles:

English

Menus available in:

English & German

Special features:

Essay "East German Science Fiction Literature"
(11, resp. 12 pages, in English & German)
Biography & filmography (in English & German)
- Gottfried Kolditz (4, resp. 3 pages)
- Jana Brejchová (6, resp. 5 pages)
East German sci-fi trailers (in German)
- "Eolomea" (2:33)
- "Im Staub der Sterne" (2:55)
- "Der schweigende Stern" (3:07)
Photogallery (33 film stills)
"Dusting Off After 30 Years," cameraman Peter Süring remembers
(16:00, resp. 15:52, in German***)

Notes:

Only available in "Science Fiction Special-Edition" 4-disc set,
together with "Eolomea," "Der schweigende Stern,"
CD: "Im Staub der Sterne, Eolomea - die Filmmusik"
& 8-page booklet (in German).

I won't bother to comment on the horrid fieldblended transfer,
see my review of "Der schweigende Stern" for a few remarks...

*it says "16:9" on the cover, but it's a mistake
**difference between channels is -59.91 dB (0.10 %)
***there are 2 versions of this documentary on the disc,
occupying 0.8 GB each, one features burnt-in
English subtitles, the other's got none

ICESTORM / PAL

Reviewed by standa.e

Last modified on Wednesday 04th April 2018, 12:01:45 AM

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Label: ICESTORM Entertainment GmbH (Germany)

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

RCE protection: No

Copyright protection system: None

Disc type: DVD5 (the data occupy 3.96 GB)

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:34:33.05

Video: PAL

Aspect ratio: 1.79:1 non-anamorphic

Bitrate (min / avg / max): 1.65 / 4.63 / 6.74 Mbps

Audio:

German Dolby Digital 2.0 mono* / 192 kbps

Subtitles:

None

Menus available in:

German

Special features:

Trailers
- "Famous DEFA Movies" (11:27, in German)
- "Westerns from the East" (2:07, in English)
Gottfried Kolditz's biography (3 pages)
& filmography (2 pages, in German)

Notes:

Getting back from the submenu to the main menu can present a problem - the navigation buttons are missing, so the only way to get back is using the MENU button on the RC, or eject & insert the disc again.

*difference between channels is -53.76 dB (0.20 %)

Noshame Films

Reviewed by dvdfreak

Last modified on Wednesday 04th April 2018, 12:01:45 AM

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Label: Noshame Films (Italy)

Region: 2

RCE protection: No

Copyright protection system: CSS / CPPM

Disc type: DVD9 (the data occupy 7.37 GB)

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:34:37.06

Video: PAL

Aspect ratio: 1.79:1 anamorphic

Bitrate (min / avg / max): 1.37 / 7.00 / 8.78 Mbps

Audio:

German Dolby Digital 2.0 mono* / 192 kbps

Subtitles:

Italian & English

Menus available in:

Italian

Special features:

"Dusting Off After 30 Years," cameraman Peter Süring remembers (15:58**)
Trailer (2:57**)
DVD credits (1 page, in Italian)
Other DVDs (11:12)

Notes:

Only available in "Stelle rosse: La fantascienza della Germania dell'Est" 3-disc set,
together with "Eolomea," "Der schweigende Stern"
& 16-page booklet (in Italian).

When I stumbled upon this set a few days ago, I thought: "Finally, somebody released these science-fiction flicks in anamorphic widescreen!" Sadly, "anamorphic" does not necessarily mean "better quality." It seems that Noshame just took ICESTORM's non-anamorphic master, and converted (upscaled) it to anamorphic, resulting in very poor definition, and visible lack of sharpness, as you can see in the gallery below. What a shame, Noshame!

*difference between channels is -57.96 dB (0.13 %)
**in German with optional Italian & English subtitles

Popron music & publishing

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Last modified on Thursday 27th December 2018, 04:30:42 PM

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Label: Popron music & publishing s.r.o. (Česká republika)

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

RCE protection: není

Copyright protection system: žádný

Disc type: DVD5 (data zabírají 4,05 GB)

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:34:35.15

Video: PAL (prokládaný)

Aspect ratio: 1,74:1 (neanamorfní)

Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0,51 / 5,50 / 9,29 Mb/s

Audio:

česky (Dolby Digital, 2.0, 320 kb/s)*

Subtitles:

žádné

Menus available in:

česky

Special features:

žádné

Notes:

Recenzovaný disk vyšel na stáncích dne 6.3.2010 jako reedice staršího popronského vydání. Jeho authoring a encoding má na svědomí firma ADK-Prague.

* S největší pravděpodobností původní dabing (podle údajů na obalu v režii Pavla Blumenfelda, autorkou českých dialogů Věra Barešová).

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