I’m proud to present the first fully German 4K version of the Original “Krieg der Sterne”-Trilogie! All three releases come with the same audio tracks included in the German Despecialized Editions (huge thanks again to cvs and J.J._McQuade for their help on these back then!).

Over the recent years, with several 4K projects emerging, people kept asking me if I would consider doing similar work for those versions, and I’ve finally found time to work on them. I am using ohteedee’s D+77/D+80/OTD83 as my base, which I’ve picked because they are the cleanest and sharpest of the 4K-releases, so this is the image quality bar I needed to match. Should I ever do German versions of other releases (especially 4K77/80/83), I “just” need to dumb them down to match their respective image quality.

Now, for some of this stuff I was able to re-purpose the After Effects projects I’ve created for Despecialized (especially the KDS end credits and some of the subtitle timings), but under the hood all sources are brand new. I’ve re-created all three crawls from scratch once again, now in Blender, trying to keep the 35mm/70mm optical compositing look (and preserving the ZÜRUCK-typo). For the Greedo subtitles I FINALLY found the correct font (Granby, in case you’re wondering), which I still had to modify a lot to match all the weird substitutes used back in the day.

The MKVs are encoded to be UHD-BD compatible, so you can just use tsMuxeR to convert them into ISOs which can be burned on 50GB BD-Rs. At least on my PS5 they played without a hitch, including working chapter stops. Here’s an overview of the audio tracks included for each movie (as said, they are identical to the tracks included in my Despecialized Editions):

Krieg der Sterne:

TRACK 1) 1978 2.0 @ 384 kbps [German]
TRACK 2) 1993 SilverScreen LD 2.0 @ 384 kbps [German]
TRACK 3) 1995 THX LD 2.0 @ 384 kbps [German]
TRACK 4) 2011 Blu-ray 5.1 DTS-HD @ 768 kbps 24-bit [German]
TRACK 5) 1977 5.1 @ 640 kbps [English]
TRACK 6) 1977 1.0 @ 128 kbps [English]
TRACK 7) Isolated Score 2.0 @ 640 kbps

Das Imperium schlägt zurück:

TRACK 1) 1980 2.0 @ 384 kbps [German]
TRACK 2) 1993 SilverScreen LD 2.0 @ 384 kbps [German]
TRACK 3) 1995 THX LD 2.0 @ 384 kbps [German]
TRACK 4) 2011 Blu-ray 5.1 DTS-HD @ 768 kbps [German]
TRACK 5) 1980 5.1 DTS-HD @ 1536 kbps [English]
TRACK 6) 1980 16mm 1.0 DTS-HD @ 192 kbps [English]
TRACK 7) Isolated Score 2.0 @ 224 kbps

Die Rückkehr der Jedi-Ritter:

TRACK 1) 1983 2.0 @ 384 kbps [German]
TRACK 2) 1993 SilverScreen LD 2.0 @ 384 kbps [German]
TRACK 3) 1995 THX LD 2.0 @ 384 kbps [German]
TRACK 4) 2011 Blu-ray 5.1 DTS-HD @ 768 kbps [German]
TRACK 5) 1983 5.1 DTS-HD @ 1536 kbps [English]
TRACK 6) 1983 2.0 DTS-HD @ 640 kbps [English]
TRACK 7) Isolated Score 2.0 @ 224 kbps

Resilio-Downloads can be found on the TSWT.com forums, while you can also contact SnooPac on here for download links.

And here are a few screenshots (with the black bars cropped out):