The Witness
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Ferenc Kállai, Károly Bicskey, Lajos Öze, Lili Monori, Zoltán Fábri Director: Péter Bacsó DVD: Region Code 0 Audio: English (Subtitled); Hungarian (Original Language) Format: Anamorphic, Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 104 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-10-07 Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: 21st Century DreamQuest Films |
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Movie Reviews of The Witness
Movie Review: Great film, lousy subtitles
Summary: 3 Stars
Yes, this film is a classic, and I love it. But don't use this version to introduce your English-speaking kids to their Hungarian heritage. Whoever did the subtitles wasn't a good enough translator to convey any subtlety at all, and instead just relied on the f-bomb anytime emphasis seemed indicated. Of course Hungarian is hard to translate, and there's no real way to indicate the levels of formality the characters use in speaking to each other, etc. But most reasonably literate bilingual types could have done a better job. Watching it with my husband, I was translating and commenting for him the whole time. Also, at several places the subtitles froze and left big chunks of a scene untranslated. Oh yes, and the translations of captions flashed by so fast it was almost impossible to get them.