Where Eagles Dare (1968, 1080p, English + German Dub)

Why I dubbed some parts in German...

I grew up in France and always loved watching "Where Eagles Dare" when it was on TV.

Of course, In France, the movie was dubbed in French when it was released in 1969, as is the case with most foreign movies released in France.

But what is very interesting and unique is that the French decided to have the German speak German in the film: so they dubbed the movie in French but added the German dubbed version when Germans are supposed to speak German. That is how I had always watch this movie and it made sense. The German language parts would are subtitled in the rench version.

I was very surprised when I saw the original English version one day and shocked to see everyone spoke English... Germans speak English, wait what?

I was able to get my hand on a couple of European DVDs of the movie and noticed that the French version is the only one that has this feature. the Italian version has everyone speak Italian, same for the Spanish version, and of course the German version...

I decided, since I had about 16 hours to lose, to try to make an English version where germans speak German.
I used Adobe Autition to keep the original 5.1 English Track and only dubbed the Center Channel when needed (see below for timing)

I also added English subtitles for the German dubbed parts. Most are the original English subtitles but a couple of them had to be adapted to translate correctly the German dialogue.

Now most people will come back to me and say "How could you dub Eastwood and Burton's voice, it sucks, etc.." Yes, I know the difference between the original English and German dubbed is quite noticable at time, but... Just consider this as an Art project.

I decided to change slightly a couple of things from the French version:

1. In the French version, Eastwood speaks French right at 0:38:22 after Burton says "I didn't get around to that. Thank you."
I thought that the voice tone difference was too much too switch back right there to English plus the bartender was still around and could hear them speak English...

2. In the French version, The colonel and Burton speaks French at 1:31:30 and 1:31:44 and also 1:31:51. It would be ok but again the tone of voice is so different between the English and German that I thought it'd be better to have the whole scene in German... plus I am not sure German Major Wilner (in Italy) is supposed to understand English.

The purists out there can always switch to audio track #2 if they can't stand German dub.

Sound track #1 AC3 5.1 English + German dub (default track)
Sound track #2 AAC 5.1 English (Original version)

Subtitled are forced.
Stéphane C.

Timing where German dub occurs:

0:29:21 0:30:55 Colonel arrival
0:34:03 0:34:51 Bridge Crossing
0:35:22 0:35:25 Tavern
0:36:23 Two Beers
0:37:00 0:37:28 Tavern
0:37:38 0:38:24 Tavern
0:44:15 0:45:15 Tavern
0:46:04 0:46:25 Tavern
0:46:27 0:46:37 Tavern
0:47:06 0:48:24 Tavern + Cable car
0:49:16 0:49:35 Car
0:51:40 0:53:59 Castle Arrival
1:05:24 1:05:32 Captain Muller
1:17:13 allo
1:17:37 1:17:42 Talking
1:20:39 1:21:05 Phone
1:21:51 1:23:00 Gestapo
1:26:24 1:27:31 Gestapo
1:31:08 1:32:11 Phone
1:32:55 1:33:07 Gestapo
1:34:47 Gard!
1:35:55 1:38:03 Gestapo
1:42:39 1:42:45 Prison
1:49:29 Firefight
1:50:35 Firefight
1:51:42 Firefight
1:52:02 Firefight
2:09:46 2:10:06
2:16:06 Calling airport
2:17:07 2:17:11 on the phone
2:23:51 2:24:22 airplane calling airport
2:26:01 2:26:09 airplane calling airport


File information

General
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File size : 3.99 GiB
Duration : 2h 35mn
Overall bit rate : 3 677 Kbps
Movie name : Where Eagles Dare (English + German Dub)

Video
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Duration : 2h 35mn
Bit rate : 3 100 Kbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 800 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Stream size : 3.36 GiB (84%)

Audio #1
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Duration : 2h 35mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Frame rate : 31.250 fps (1536 spf)
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : 930ms
Stream size : 426 MiB (10%)
Title : English + German Dub (AC3)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio #2
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Duration : 2h 35mn
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Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz / 24.0 KHz
Frame rate : 23.438 fps (1024 spf)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 213 MiB (5%)
Title : Original English (AAC)
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

Text
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Duration : 1h 56mn
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Count of elements : 232
Stream size : 9.11 KiB (0%)
Title : English Translation of German Dub
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Default : Yes
Forced : Yes