What language?


I have the UK dvd from Momentum, which features no less than 5 different language options. however none of them matches the lip movements of the characters! What was this originally filmed in; Swahili? The French track works the best, and features narration, where the other languages have nothing.

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I saw it when it first came out in the UK at Leicester Square in 1984. It was in English and nearly all the characters in it are dubbed. I think it was probably, almost certainly, filmed in English, but then all the characters are dubbed by voice artists. This is standard practice in films, when most of the actors are not native speakers of English. They speak their lines in English during the filming on location, then their voices are re-recorded later in the studio, by voice artists whose English is better.

This is confusing, I know...just like sex!

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Thanks for the reply, and you are lucky to see THIS in a theatre! The English dubbing is horrible though, some of the worst i have heard. When "Emmanuelle 4" was released on video in the States, it had the English dub, as well as almost 10 minutes cut out, (meaning the sex scenes.) I thought the movie was worthless. Years later i get to see the full length feature, in French, and it is another experience entirely. The French audio is very well-done, and makes the film so much better. Plus the erotic scenes are some of the hottest of the 4 films in the series. This is a fun film, and that actress, Mia Nygren is possibly the most beautiful of all the actresses that played Emmanuelle! I wish they still made movies like this...

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I wish so too...and I've spent years trying to find out what happened to Mia Nygren. She seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. I'd love to know what she's doing today, just out of curiosity.

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I wonder if Sylvia Kristel did her own dubbing for the English and French versions of this film?

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I can't be sure but it certainly sounded like Kristel's voice..

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