Product Details

• Actors: Lisa Banes, Marisa Berenson, Josephine Chaplin, Stacy Keach, Pamela Reed
• Directors: Bernhard Sinkel
• Format: Color, Content/Copy-Protected CD, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: KOCH VISION
• DVD Release Date: May 10, 2005
• Run Time: 287 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007TV64I
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #138,423 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This is junk! The technical quality is an outrage, February 6, 2005

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Aficionado - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hemingway (DVD)

I saw this miniseries on European TV about 10 years ago; taped it and -- being a Pappa aficionado -- cherished it. My VHS copy slowly became fuzzy and I hoped to get the same in everlasting DVD quality.

Man, was I wrong.

The broadcasted series was longer. What did they take out? The good stuff. The broadcasted series had a brilliant score, based on the Enigma variations by James Elgar. The DVD has some electronic synthesizer score, usually associated with 3d rate porn from former Yugoslavia. The same goes for the title sequence; originally a piece of art based on watercolor freeze frames with design titles. On the DVD the titles are cheap digital fonts with a jagged edge.

Can it get any worse? Yes, it can. De picture quality of the DVD is more faded than my VHS copy. And something probably went wrong during transfer to digital format -- or it was deliberately done very, very, very cheap. All sweeping or action packed camera movements look like something taped from a narrow band internet connection.

If possible, I would have rated this minus 5 stars.

No matter how much you like Hemingway or the content of this miniseries: don't buy this junk.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Warning! Both discs are the same!, August 19, 2005

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A Reader (San Antonio, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hemingway (DVD)

I bought this DVD and returned it twice! Both discs are the same. Both are parts 1 and 2 of the series. While the labels on the discs are correct, disc 2 is not part 3 and extra features. It is parts 1 and 2 repeated again!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hemingway, August 11, 2006

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Angela M. Greenwell - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hemingway (DVD)

Ever since watching this Hemingway drama on TV in the 1980s I have been desperate to watch it again - it was never repeated on TV. I was delighted to see that I could purchase the DVD through Amazon. I have a multiregion DVD and I had absolutely no problem with the DVD - the quality is excellent.

Thanks for allowing me to enjoy the wonderful drama again.