Extensive âHate ist my Godâ news for Germany (no worries, will be English-friendly release).
First of all, I would like to briefly address the little-big problem child, the Italian sound.
As we hold the German rights to the film as well as international rights, we naturally want to position ourselves in the best possible way in order to:
a) offer you as customers the best possible product and
b) to be able to offer the title to other interested parties as a sublicense.
In recent years, we were able to locate a 35mm copy of the Italian version through a good friend by chance in a provincial Italian movie theater.
This was truly a sensation, because a warehouse fire years ago destroyed all the material for the Italian version of the film, including all the contractual documents, which is why the title can no longer be officially released in Italy.
The situation is quite different with the international/German rights, for example, which we have secured for life and fortunately we were able to find all the material for the film at the Murnau Foundation, which went to Axel Springer Verlag at the time and was never returned to the rights holder.
This included the English sound negative, the silent German OCN (of which each country made its own cut), trailer sound negatives, a German 35mm archive print and thousands of stills taken directly on set.
Back to the Italian sound and the last few weeksâŚ
We can tell you that we found another Italian theatrical print at the Cineteca NazionaleâŚand the sound is truly 1A compared to anything youâve seen or heard so far.
So the search is finally over.
What else?
We have now found 3 different German movie posters for the film, all of which we want to include in our release. In addition, there is the (perhaps) only German poster photo that has survived all these yearsâŚwe already have an idea of how we can use it in a tasty way for you, see below.
What else is interesting? ExactlyâŚwhat do we have in mindâŚ
Youâve probably heard it enough already, but yes, Italo westerns are not easy to market and certainly not an unknown gem (yes, it is!) like IL NERO. Or maybe it is, precisely because of that? Weâll seeâŚ
In any case, we have seen how tough a sell-out can be with our follow-up edition of TĂTE, DJANGO.
Thatâs why we want to go all out right from the start, and it looks something like this: 4K UHD + BLURAY Limited Edition | Single DVD & BD release at a later date. The Limited Edition will contain the following:
- 4K UHD + BLURAY
- German, English & Italian versions of the film (it is not yet clear whether there is actually an English version, the sound negative still has to be compared with the German and Italian versions)
- Trailer (as a recut; based on the English trailer sound negative)
- Booklet with at least 4 different texts about the movie
- Artbook (bound) with all available set stills for the film (possibly also integrated with the authorsâ texts)
- Packaging? We are leaning towards a nice sturdy box where everything has its place, but we have other ideasâŚ
- The German poster photo as a limitation certificate
- Featurette: (still secret)
- Audio commentary is also planned, but only when the final master is available
