SW films dubbed in other languages

Author: scorethefilm
Date: 24-Apr-2008, 2:54 PM

Author: scorethefilm
Time: 24-Apr-2008 2:54 PM
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Last year I came across all 6 films dubbed in German and they've been a blast to watch (I also have the Indiana Jones films in German - FUN).

Besides the R1 disc with English, Spanish and French, what other languages have they been dubbed in for home video/DVD? I'm more concerned with the original trilogy than the prequels (although it is fun to see if Hayden's acting is better with a different voice actor - so far the Spanish dub is best for that).

I'd LOVE to see the OT in Japanese or Russian. And if anyone has copies of these I could make it worth your while. Thanks!

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Author: Arnie.d
Time: 24-Apr-2008 4:16 PM (Edited)
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Personally I cannot stand movies dubbed in another language (except animated movies). I want the original language. In the Netherlands we always have subtitles. When other countries started dubbing series and movies a long time ago it was finacially not doable in the Netherlands because we are too small a country. So we got subtitles instead. Thank God for that.

I had a Star Wars trilogy bootleg with a chinese dub.

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Author: scorethefilm
Time: 24-Apr-2008 4:37 PM
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Arnie.d said:

I had a Star Wars trilogy bootleg with a chinese dub.

I take it you no longer have it? That would be fun to watch.

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Author: Arnie.d
Time: 24-Apr-2008 4:45 PM
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No resold it on ebay. Video quality sucked.

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Author: skyjedi2005
Time: 24-Apr-2008 6:15 PM (Edited)
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there are japanese dubs available in region 2 but are only monaural.

i know someone once on these board wanted to preserve the original theatrical german dubs since they are not on any of the dvds.

i believe star wars (now called episode IV) got spainish, french and german as well as japan dubs all done in monaural .

well actually the spanish one was more of a narration than a dub as i recall, it is a very rare laserdisc release.

as far as i know a couple of the prequels got official mandarin dubs on vcd not sure which ones though.

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Author: scorethefilm
Time: 25-Apr-2008 12:32 PM
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I'm not interested really in the quality (mono/stereo etc); just the language. My friends and I get a kick out of watching them in other languages.

Does anyone have a Chinese or Japanese dub?

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Author: none
Time: 25-Apr-2008 8:40 PM
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This topic pops up from time to time, i'd love to hear all the versions as well, add them to the isolated score fan preservation DVD. At some point parts of the japanese dub of the prequels circulated and Obi-wan sounded like he might have been.

Author: Morbid
Time: 2-May-2008 3:06 PM
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scorethefilm said:

I'd LOVE to see the OT in Japanese or Russian.

I own an officially released Japanese OOT DVDs (GOUT), it's still available at amazon.co.jp, hmv.co.jp or any other japanese DVD-store.

Star Wars presented with two dubbed tracks -- original '78 dubbing and a newer one. ESB and ROTJ offer new dubbing only.

You can watch few scenes from EpIV and EpV SE 04 here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1317321258474504937
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7507733826269612440

As for Russian dubbing -- there's two dubbed versions of Star Wars:
1. A very well done Soviet dubbing shown in USSR theaters back in the late 80's.
2. A made-for-TV dubbing (and I mean dubbing, not a voiceover) done by ORT TV-channel in 2005 (along with ESB and ROTJ) as part of the ROTS promotion. Pretty lame for my tastes -- poor acting and questionable translation work.

Original Star Wars dubbing is almost impossible to find now, and those few collectors who own it on film do not want to share.

ORT-dubbing of OT SE 04 can be easily found via Internet.

Here's two short samples:
Vader and Leia at Tantive IV (SW)
Vader and Jerjerrod at Death Star II (ROTJ)