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Westfront 1918(1930)Four infantrymen on the Western Front suffer the everyday hardships and insanity of trench warfare. For more about Westfront 1918 and the Westfront 1918 Blu-ray release, see Westfront 1918 Blu-ray Review published by Dr. Svet Atanasov on February 19, 2018 where this Blu-ray release scored 4.0 out of 5. Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst Starring: Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl, Hans-Joachim Möbis, Claus Clausen, Jackie Monnier, Hanna Hoessrich » See full cast & crew Westfront 1918 Blu-ray, Video QualityPresented in an aspect ratio of 1.19:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, G.W. Pabst's Westfront 1918 arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Criterion. The following text appears inside the leaflet provided with this Blu-ray release: "This 2014 restoration by Deutsche Kinemathek was undertaken from a transfer created in 2K resolution on a C-Reality film scanner from a 35mm duplicate positive held by the British Film Institute and a 35mm duplicate negative from Praesens-Film AG. The monaural soundtrack was remastered from the same elements. Restoration supervisor: Martin Koerber/Deutsche Kinemathek. Restoration technician: Julia Wallmuller/Deutsche Kinemathek. Transfer supervisor and colorist: Thomas Bakels/Alpha-Omega digital GmbH, Munich. Image processing and restoration: Marie Bendl//Alpha-Omega digital GmbH." Time has obviously left its mark on Westfront 1918, so the restoration actually involved a fairly large amount of reconstruction work. However, the end result is very impressive, though as far as I am concerned this is anything but surprising. Indeed, as soon as I saw that Mr. Bakels was involved with the project I knew that all efforts have been made to get optimal results. (For reference, Alpha-Omega was the German company that, under Thomas Bekels' supervision, produced this magnificent restoration of Ernst Lubitsch's film The Loves of Pharaoh. Despite some minor density fluctuations that are introduced by native source limitations, depth and clarity remain very pleasing. In fact, there are larger portions of the film where depth is actually quite impressive. I expected to see the most obvious limitations during the nighttime/darker footage, but stability and overall quality there are very good; only during the final third there are some thicker than usual visuals where blacks and shadow definition are not optimal. There are no traces of problematic degraining or sharpening adjustments; the digital work that was performed to stabilize and rebalance the film as best as possible is very convincing. Lastly, it was easy for me to see that a lot of work was also done to removes as many traditional age-related imperfections as best as possible. Well done. (Note: This is a Region-A "locked" Blu-ray release. Therefore, you must have a native Region-A or Region-Free player in order to access its content). Westfront 1918 Blu-ray, Audio QualityThere is only one standard audio track on this Blu-ray release: German LPCM 1.0. (with a few short exchanges in French). Optional English subtitles are provided for the main feature. The recording equipment is undoubtedly responsible for some of the 'thinning' and clipping in the high-frequencies, so when you view the film and you feel that during the battle footage the audio ought to be better rounded and fuller this is the reason for the overall unevenness. On the other hand, there is no doubt in my mind that some conventional aging has also had an impact on the overall quality of the audio. The current remastering job, however, is convincing.
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Westfront 1918 Blu-ray, News and Updates• Criterion Announces January Titles - October 16, 2017 The Criterion Collection has announced that it will add five new titles to its Blu-ray catalog in January: The Breakfast Club, Young Mr. Lincoln, I, Daniel Blake, Westfront 1918, and Kameradschaft.
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