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Xawery 真豉wski's film 'Chaos': does the Polish DVD have English subtitles?



MichaelBThreads: 1
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  Aug 7, 09, 11:02 /  #
I've just spotted that there's a Polish DVD (on the SPI label) of Xawery 真豉wski's debut feature 'Chaos', but I can't find out whether it has English subtitles. I'm guessing not, but does anyone know for sure?

(I saw his second feature 'Wojna polsko-ruska' last week, hence my interest in his earlier work)

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Edited by: Krzysztof   Aug 8, 09, 23:40 /  #
MichaelB:
I'm guessing not, but does anyone know for sure?

Well, I made an extensive online search (websites of SPI, Merlin, Empik, google images search and other sites) and everything seemed to be confirming that there are no subtitles ... until :

Item on Allegro
Picture of the DVD back cover

I'm not sure if you're familiar with Allegro ("Polish e-bay"), 3 sellers repeat the standard (mis)information, but 2 other sellers say differently and I somehow doubt the seller would take the hassle necessary to photoshop the back cover of the DVD :)


That's what it says on the back cover:
Sound: Polish DD 5.1 / Polish DTS
Subtitles: English
Aspect ratio: 16:9 / 1.77:1
Extras: Scene selection (12 scenes), trailer
Region: 2
Colour
Duration: 123 minutes

I also found elsewhere that it's a 2-layer disc (DVD-9)

Other seller's description, also mentioning English subtitles, but no picture of the back cover

I know Polish distributors suck at making good descriptions of their DVDs, in this case they probably didn't care enough (the movie was a total flop at cinemas).
MichaelBThreads: 1
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  Aug 8, 09, 23:49 /  #
That is brilliant - thank you so much!

I was looking for a scan of the back cover, as I agree with you that Polish distribution channels are worse than useless - and I can just about make out 'Napisy: angielskie' on the one you linked to, which pretty much clinches it. And I agree with you that there'd be no point faking a back cover - if someone ordered it and it didn't have subtitles, you'd just end up with negative feedback.

It was so cheap I was tempted to order it anyway (I have a close Polish friend who's a big fan of 'Wojna polsko-ruska' and wants to see 'Chaos' too), but now I can do it in more or less complete confidence.
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  Sep 6, 09, 15:25 /  #
Thank you so much for looking into this, I had the same question!
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Edited by: Bzibzioh   Sep 6, 09, 17:20 /  #
MichaelB:
Xawery 真豉wski's debut feature 'Chaos'

I saw that movie during the film festival. It was just disgusting; basically a catalog of pathologies (incest, drug use, alcoholism, sex orgies, family dysfunction etc). Made me wanna puke. Most people walked out.
MichaelBThreads: 1
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  Sep 9, 09, 21:20 /  #
Excellent - sounds right up my street. Thanks for the recommendation.
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  Sep 12, 09, 15:31 /  #
Wojna polsko-ruska is listed on dvd. Does this have subtitles?
MichaelBThreads: 1
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  Sep 12, 09, 19:27 /  #
According to Empik, yes.

http://www.empik.com/wojna-polsko-ruska-film,prod20700245,p?slotName=R ecommendedAll

That's not exactly 100% reliable, but I can confirm that English subtitles exist in some form, as that's how I saw the film at the Era New Horizons festival in Wroc豉w - so presumably it wouldn't have cost much to slap them on the DVD.
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  Nov 1, 09, 16:50 /  #
Michael B,

Does the 6 DVD set of Dom have English subtitles?
http://merlin.pl/Dom_Jan-Lomnicki/browse/product/2,697716.html

According to Merlin the individual parts do but I can not find any info on if they set has them.

Thanks!!
Richard

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