# The 1969 film Burn!

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**Created:** [June 2, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-1969-film-burn/1019116 "2025-06-02T19:12:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-1969-film-burn/1019116/1 "2025-06-02T19:12:03Z")

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Pontecorvo is best known for The Battle of Algiers, but his film Burn! with Marlon Brando is a powerful look at slavery and colonialism. The DVD is poor quality and the remastering was for some reason entirely dubbed into Italian. How much work and money does remastering a film take? Assuming the film and audio are easily available, and presuming there is a wide range of answers depending on…what? To whom would one direct a letter of inquiry and persuasion?

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-1969-film-burn/1019116/2 "2025-06-02T19:35:42Z")

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I know the English language version is long out of print. Is it available on Amazon Prime?  
Here is where it is available for streaming: [Burn! streaming: where to watch movie online?](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/burn-1969)

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**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-1969-film-burn/1019116/3 "2025-06-02T23:13:34Z")

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My library has the dvd, and Apple has it, but in each case the quality is poor. I haven’t seen the Italian remastering, but since neither I nor my students speak Italian, it wouldn’t help if it was beautifully done. That got me wondering what it would take to have a remastered version with the original audio. How much of a job is it? What’s involved? What would it cost? Roughly and with caveats, of course.