Where can I get this??
Does anybody know were I can get this movie?
Most people are so ungrateful to be alive, but not you, not any more...
The AIP print (Voyage to the End of the Universe) is available on dvd in America, but I don't know if the company seeling it ships outside the States. They're a small company, named BijouFlix. As far as I know of the restored Czechoslovakian original edit has not yet been released in any region. (I would hope it was released in it's country of origin, at least. Maybe someone will correct me and tell us how to obtain it??)
The AIP print is English dubbed, pan & scan, and has a slightly altered final shot, but as far as I can tell it is the full length film. There seems to be a slight discrepency in the running times that have been reported for the movie.
Also, it's in black and white - the notion that it was ever in color seems to have sprung from the lobby cards having been colorized.
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I will have the original film on DVD-R soon [copied directly from the official Czech PAL video edition, so the quality will be very good - so far, I have the video on MPEG-2 w/ MP3 audio]. It is aslo in widescreen [cca. 1:2.35].
Not only does the ending of the original film differ [= much better], but there are scenes not to be found in the altered American version [particularly at the departure of Ikarie, e.g., when it is shown that the spaceship leaves our Solar System].
Ikarie XB1 aslo available at a Czech video distributor in Canada [on DVD-R, and reportedly in good quality]: http://www.videoelcanada.com/ [interestingly, I can not get the menu section with Firefox, only with IE. You should click on "I" in the catalogue menue to get the section containing Ikarie on .pdf file].
I can confirm that original version of this movie has been releasd in Czech republic on DVD (http://filmpub.atlas.cz/dvd/61171-ikarie-xb-1.aspx). I don't known about any possible export thought.
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