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‘Mahabharata’ 8K Restoration Brings Peter Brook’s Epic Back to Venice
Some 35 years after its debut at Venice, Peter Brook's film adaptation of epic 'The Mahabharata' is returning to the Lido in a restored 8K version.
The restoration, spearheaded by the late director’s son Simon, marks a new chapter for the groundbreaking 1989 production that brought the ancient Indian epic to global audiences. “I’m not a lawyer, I’m a filmmaker, so it was quite eye-opening.” The process involved navigating through a maze of contracts, letters and annexes, some of which were created to satisfy completion bond requirements that conflicted with French law at the time of the film’s production. The team collaborated with a branch of India’s Prasad Corporation in Germany, utilizing a state-of-the-art DFT Polar HQ scanner with a 9.3K monochrome field array sensor.
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