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Gaumont
Directed by: Orson Welles
Orson Welles’s first color film and final completed fictional feature, The Immortal Story is a moving and wistful adaptation of a tale by Isak Dinesen. Welles stars as a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Macao, who becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife. Also starring an ethereal Jeanne Moreau, this jewel-like film, dreamily shot by Willy Kurant and suffused with the music of Erik Satie, is a brooding, evocative distillation of Welles’s artistic interests—a story about the nature of storytelling and the fine line between illusion and reality.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
DVD
Discs:
DVD-9 (2 Discs)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66:1
Audio Options:
English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
French Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Resolution:
480p/29.97
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Alternate Soundtrack, Audio Commentary, Documentary, Interview, Insert
- Alternate French-language version of the film
- Audio commentary from 2005 featuring film scholar Adrian Martin
- Portrait: Orson Welles, a 1968 documentary directed by François Reichenbach and Frédéric Rossif
- New interview with actor Norman Eshley
- Interview from 2004 with cinematographer Willy Kurant
- New interview with Welles scholar François Thomas
- An essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Release Credits
Producer: Issa Clubb
Artwork: Sterling Hundley
Release Notes on Restoration
The Immortal Story
The Immortal Story is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1. On standard 4:3 televisions, the image will appear letterboxed. On standard and widescreen televisions, black bars may also appear on the left and right to maintain the proper screen format. This new digital transfer was created in 4K resolution from the 35mm original camera negative and a 35mm interpositive. Restoration was undertaken in 2K resolution at Éclair | Groupe Ymagis by Gaumont, with support of the CNC.
The original monaural soundtrack was transferred from 35mm sound negatives and restored by L.E. Diapason.
The original monaural soundtrack was transferred from 35mm sound negatives and restored by L.E. Diapason.