International Audio (including Voice-Over Translations)

General thread for the information/discussion related to the international versions of the Star Wars films.  From official in theater dubs, official release dubs, television dubs and unofficial voice-over translations.

Listing of when a country first aired a Star Wars film in theaters:
Info from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/releaseinfo & http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=starwars4se.htm

First showing Date : Country
1977.05 : USA
1977.08-10 : Philippines, France, Italy, Australia
1977.11-12 : Spain, Brazil, Portugal, Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Mexico, Argentina, Denmark, Norway, Ireland, UK
1978.01-02 : Uruguay, Hong Kong, West Germany
1978.06-10 : South Korea, Japan, India, Iceland, Poland
1979-1980 : Hungary, Turkey
1982 : Bulgaria
1991 : Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia
1997 : Taiwan, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Austria, Colombia, Israel, Romania, South Africa, Switzerland, Bolivia, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, New Zealand, Peru, Slovenia, Greece, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Panama, Thailand, Jamaica, Egypt, Malaysia, Singapore, Estonia, Indonesia
1999 : Puerto Rico, Singapore, Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Kenya, Seychelles, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, Suriname, Slovakia, Estonia, Morocco, China, Kuwait
2002 : Jordan, Kazakhstan, Netherlands Antilles, Syria, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Belize, Barbados, El Salvador
2005 : Bahrain, Republic of Macedonia
2012 : Bosnia and Hezegovina, Malta

Countries which may have not had Star Wars shown:
Most of Africa, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Afganistan

Official International Variations
Countries with Dub and Subtitles

Countries with Subtitles Only

Uncertain

Countries with UnOfficial Voice-Over Translations

List of possibilities:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_foreign_language_translations_of_Star_Wars_titles

and

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/releaseinfo

La guerra de las galaxias	Argentina / Chile / Colombia / Mexico / Panama / Peru / Spain (imdb display title) / Venezuela
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope	International (imdb display title) (English title) / Netherlands (imdb display title) / Netherlands / UK (imdb display title) / USA (reissue title)
???????? ?????. ?????? 4: ????? ???????	Russia / Soviet Union (Russian title)
La guerre des étoiles	Canada (French title) / France
Star Wars: Epizoda IV - Nová nadeje	Czech Republic (imdb display title) / Czechoslovakia (long title) (Czech title)
Stjärnornas krig	Finland (Swedish title) / Sweden
Ο Π?λεμος των ?στρων	Greece
???????? ?????	Soviet Union (Russian title)
???????????? ?????	Bulgaria (Bulgarian title)
A Guerra das Estrelas	Portugal
Adventures of the Starkiller: Episode 1 - The Star Wars	USA (working title)
Csillagok háborúja	Hungary
Guerra nas Estrelas	Brazil
Guerre stellari	Italy (imdb display title)
Gwiezdne wojny	Poland
Gwiezdne wojny, czesc IV: Nowa nadzieja	Poland (reissue title)
Hvezdné války	Czechoslovakia (Czech title)
Hviezdne vojny	Czechoslovakia (Slovak title)
Hviezdne vojny IV - Nová nádej	Czechoslovakia (long title) (Slovak title)
Krieg der Sterne	West Germany (imdb display title)
La guerra de las estrellas	USA (Spanish title)
La guerra de les galàxies	Spain (Catalan title)
La guerra de les galàxies: Una nova esperança	Spain (reissue title) (Catalan title)
La guerre des étoiles - Un nouvel éspoir	Canada (TV title) (French title)
O polemos ton astron	Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
Ratovi zvezda - Nova nada	Serbia
Ratovi zvijezda	Croatia (video title)
Razboiul stelelor	Romania (imdb display title)
Star Wars - Episode IV: Eine neue Hoffnung	Germany (new title)
Star Wars IV. - Egy új remény	Hungary
Star Wars IV: A New Hope	USA (video box title)
Star Wars: ?????? IV - ???? ???????	Bulgaria (Bulgarian title)
Star Wars: Episódio IV - Uma Nova Esperança	Brazil (DVD box title)
Star Wars: Episodi IV - Uusi toivo	Finland (imdb display title)
Star Wars: Episodio IV - Una nueva esperanza	Spain (new title)
Star Wars: Episodio IV - Una nuova speranza	Italy (new title)
Star wars: Épisode IV, la guerre des étoiles	France (TV title)
Star wars: Osa IV - Uus lootus	Estonia (imdb display title)
Stjörnustríð	Iceland
Stjernekrigen	Denmark
Sutâ wôzu episoddo 4: Aratanaru kibô	Japan
Tähtede sõda	Estonia
Tähtien sota	Finland (short title)
The Adventures of Luke Starkiller as Taken from the 'Journal of the Whills': Saga I - Star Wars	USA (working title)
The Star Wars	USA (original script title)
The Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Starkiller	USA (working title)
Yildiz savaslari	Turkey (Turkish title)

Listening to an 80s La Guerra de las Galaxias VHS and noticed the Stormtrooper who falls just before the Luke/Leia's swing doesn't have a Wilhelm. Checked out some other versions:

La Guerra de las Galaxias 80s VHS - no scream

Guerra Nas Estrelas - Portuguese Dub (Brazilian) Pre-SE TV - no scream

GOUT Espanol - no scream

GOUT French - Wilhelm

GOUT Deutsch German - new scream

SWSE GKar Deutsch - Wilhelm

SWSE REIVAX Francais - Wilhelm

German'07 HD Broadcast Deutsch - no scream

Semi-related threads:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Preservations-with-non-English-tracks/topic/13539/page/1/

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Definitive-tractor-beam-Close-the-blast-doors-Blast-it-Biggs-Wedge-you-dont-taste-very-good-Noooooo-Preservation-Guide/topic/13428/

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/How-Star-Wars-names-are-translated-in-non-english-countries/topic/4532/

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Looking-for-people-who-speak-German-French-Spanish-or-Brazilian-Portuguese/topic/13463/

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Non-English-versions/topic/2421/

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Announcing-Project-Threepio-Star-Wars-OOT-subtitles/topic/13794/

The Brazilian dubbing was made for TV broadcasting, but Fox liked enough to release a dubbed version in VHS (midle 80's).

There is some "mistakes" in this dubbing, like R2 and Chewbacca's sound effects being missing sometimes.

russs15 wrote: Before you get to specifics, I think a list of different languages from VHS, TV, LD, DVD, GOUT, HDTV, Blu Ray - OT and SE would be a good start.

Yeah this was more of an impulse topic as I had a specific instance.  Had a similar thought along the way which was in draft a year or so ago so here it is:

---------draft----------

What are the different Language Versions of these movies?  Audio and Visuals, Hearing and Visual Impaired (Audio Description) versions as well.

Generally : English (Anglais), Latin America, Deutsch (German), Spanish, Portuguese, Français (French), Italiano (Italian), Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norwegian, Estonia, Greece, Russian, Japanese, Thai, Cantonese, Mandarin, India, Turkey, Romania, Arabic, ???? (some of these may just be title translations)

As SW didn't enter the Russian market until the late 80s, was there ever a version done or was it created later?  Same idea for Cantonese and Mandarin, as China's copyright policies often limit films going over, are the versions created for a TV broadcast?

Can eventually discuss the variations or split out each language into their own thread.  For example - German:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Preserving-German-Original-Trilogy/topic/5765/

Articles on dubbing or subtitling:

An International Phantom Menace - Dubbing Episode I

http://www.starwars.com/episode-i/bts/production/news19990818.html

Tentative International Trailer and Release Dates (of TPM)

http://www.starwars.com/themovies/episode-i/theaterlist_intl.html

Clones, Klónok and Klonkrieger

http://www.starwars.com/episode-ii/release/promo/news20011102.html (offline)

http://www.starwars.com/episode-ii/release/promo/news20011102.html" target="_blank" title="web.archive.org/web/20080116080253/http://www.starwars.com/episode-ii/release/promo/news20011102.html">http://web.archive.org/web/20080116080253/http://www.starwars.com/episode-ii/release/promo/news20011102.html

Audio Description:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-films-with-audio-description-Can-anyone-help-out/topic/4933/

CatBus said:

There is a Brazilian GOUT release with official Brazilian Portuguese subs, no Portuguese audio.

It's true. Later I can upload 300dpi scans of the DVD covers. The pre-SE dub is ripped from an old 80's VHS. This dubbing is pretty rare nowdays and the older fans seems to really like it.

russs15 said:

It is a shame that there is no audio.....

These folks have taken the time to rip an old catala VHS and sync it with the BR:

http://forum.totsrucs.cat/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10972

There are also Hindi dubs of the Prequels.

Czech TV Dub
Hv?zdné Války RARE (Ond?ej Neff) rychlodabing VHS 80s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXaRAzEtOwU
    Jóo kdyby 80. léta. :) Premiéra na SAT1? 01.04.1990

Hv?zdné Války p?vodní titulky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvOK5WbuZcU

Italian : Guerre Stellari Pre-ANH VHS Crawl
Guerre Stellari (1977) - Titoli di apertura originali
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ao5qqXMxXI

Italian : Episode 1 crawl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3TYCRLvlLQ

German - Pre-ANH VHS (*recreation*)
Krieg der Sterne Eröffnungssequenz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3THFc9ocbI

French/Canada - Pre-ANH VHS
La Guerre des Etoiles - Texte déroulant d'ouverture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFg6iMK3ikM

Oh my God, THANKS A LOT for the Czech dubs :-) It brings back some really nice memories :-)

Just a little explanation what "rychlodabing" is - it was pretty common in the late 80's / early 90's that they used the original audio (usually mono downconverted from stereo), and overlaid over it were new dialogues in Czech. Usually one man was speaking for all male characters, and one woman was speaking for all female characters. Usually the czech "actors" didn't ACT, but only read the text from the paper, without any emotion. That was quite funny in porn movies especially :-)

BTW I have the Ewok movie in this type of dubbing.

And Ond?ej Neff is a Czech sci-fi writer and translator of all Star Wars novels

none said:

German - Pre-ANH VHS
Krieg der Sterne Eröffnungssequenz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3THFc9ocbI

I'm pretty sure that's a recreation and not the original.

pittrek wrote: THANKS A LOT for the Czech dubs

Please consider thanking the youtube poster.   Maybe with enough interest (and explanation of what we do round here) the full recording could make it out.  (nudge nudge wink wink)  That's interesting about the rychlodabing (voice-over translation), and especially who did it.  Are both videos, Neff?  I'd be interested in the Ewok rychlodab. 

Cool this leads to another version:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice-over_translation

Mentions that in Russia, the voice over was done by Leonid Volodarskiy.

Quote: "Volodarskiy, who is most readily associated not with a particular genre, but with the nasal intonation of his voice, is best remembered for his dubbing of Star Wars."

Article about the phenomenon: http://web.archive.org/web/20051024024810/http://kinofond.narod.ru/Perevod.html

This is great, reminds me of conversions with people about a Russian bootleg where they mentioned a voice over, over the normal audio, this is a why and a possible who.  Also there's a chinese artifact of SW which has a voice-over Mandarin translation.

Laserschwert wrote: I'm pretty sure that's a recreation and not the original.

Yeah thought it looked bright, should have checked the comments closer, amended the previous post.

It's funny, Sat.1 is a German TV station, and the logo in the corner is the one they used in the 90s. So it's obviously just a recording of the German TV-broadcast, dubbed with the English audio and over-dubbed with Czech...

Laserschwert said:

It's funny, Sat.1 is a German TV station, and the logo in the corner is the one they used in the 90s. So it's obviously just a recording of the German TV-broadcast, dubbed with the English audio and over-dubbed with Czech...

Yes, that's exactly the uploader's comment under the youtube video :-)

None - I'll try to put the Ewok dub somewhere this weekend

Yes, the 80's dubs are unofficial, but official dubs were made like this too. But thank god they stopped doing it very soon :-)