Wagner [1984]

Product Details

Director : Tony Palmer
Actor : Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Gemma Craven
Format : Box set, PAL
Binding : DVD
EAN : 5055002551895
Number of Discs : 3
Product Group : DVD
Region Code : 2
Release Date : 2005-05-09
Running Time : 469minutes
Studio : Metrodome Distribution

ASIN : B0007MSQ70

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Customer Reviews

Let down by sound quality (2006-08-26)

This was a great TV Epic, but this DVD version is let down by the poor quality 2 channel soundtrack. Could do with a digital makeover, including some softening of Burton's face in earlier scenes; you have to suspend belief in order to imagine Burton was playing 'young' 37 year-old Wagner.Otherwise beautifully filmed, very 'arty', and close to history.

very poor sound quality... (2006-06-12)

...makes this edition much less enjoyable than it could and should be (excessive overmodulations all the time), along with strangely unsynchronized dubbing of a considerable amount of lines. fine acting, though.

3 disks and not 4 - the reason (2005-06-12)

The US version (Kultur) has four disks of lenght 136 + 131 + 97 + 105 minutes = 469 minutes.

This edition suppoesedly has three disks of 153 + 161 + 154 = 468 minutes.

So would guess it's the same contents.

The answer to our questions (2005-06-06)

I have had the opportunity to watch the US version and, as far as I remember for having watched the UK version some time ago, the US 4-DVD version has a couple of extended scenes here and there, nothing of great importance for the whole of the story. The US version is however of relatively poor image and sound quality, and has no language or subtitle options. I would like to find out if the UK version has language options (German).

Why 3 discs and not 4? (2005-05-23)

Derek Carver's question is a very good one and I do think that the European version is shorter. Amazon should answer this question. In the meanwhile I am ordering from the States.

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