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1 videodisc (58 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out booklet
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New, restored 4k digital transfer of the English-language version of the film
A wealthy merchant in nineteenth century Macao 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
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1968
Adaptation of "Babette's feast" by Isak Dinesen
Special features: 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; itnerview from 2004 with cinematographer Willy Kurant; new interview with Welles scholar François Thomas; essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
Cinematography, Willy Kurant ; editors, Claude Farny, Françoise Garnault, Yonade Mauette, Marcelle Pluet
Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Roger Coggio, Norman Eshley
Blu-ray, region A; widescreen (aspect ratio: 1.66:1); monaural
English or French dialogue with optional English subtitles