Title: Really dated production
Product review: I wish I had not purchased this film.I find it difficult to watch because the languages are treated inconsistently. For example, there is considerable dialog in French but it's not translated in any way.What the makers did to Russian is worse. Sometimes it's dubbed-in, in English, but sometimes even in the same scene the origial audio replaces the English while subtitles appear. This has the effect of dramatically illustrating the difference in voice between the dubber and the original actor!The end result is too much overlapping of audio tracks and subtitles. In my opinion it would have been far better to leave the original Russian audio intact and simply use sub-titles throughout. What we have here is confusing and difficult to follow.Then there is the issue of mid 1960's dramatic over-acting. This I think was the final straw for me.I'll just have to read the book.
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