Lost Horizon 4K 1937 Ultra HD 2160p

In 1935, during the uprising in China, a plane with five Englishmen and Americans on board made an emergency landing in the remote mountains of Tibet, where no civilized man had ever set foot. The poor people were ready to say goodbye to their lives, but suddenly salvation came to them in the form of strange Buddhist monks, whose head, to their surprise, spoke English. He leads them to the fabulous country of Shangri-La, previously unknown to anyone. In this ideal country, health, peace and longevity rule people unlike the rest of the civilized world. The main principle of their “ideology” is the rejection of excesses. What happened further with the heroes of the movie in this “utopia”, you will find out for yourself, for the movie deserves it. This unique picture, which was a success all over the world, was restored (it took several years), but some episodes have not been found until now, and they have been replaced by photographs, although the dialogues have been preserved. In 1973, Charles Jarraud directed a remake. Screenplay by Robert Riskin, based on the novel by James Hilton.

User Review
One can consider the film 'Lost Horizon' to stand apart in the work of the American director Frank Capra, who is famous, first of all, as a creator of comedies of various kinds: from lyrical to mystical, although he expressed in a number of pictures the very essence of the Rooseveltian course for the prosperity of America after the Great Depression of 1929. The reliance on the typical 'American dream', the unconditional hopes for 'prosperity', the socio-utopian ideals that Capra's heroes nurture, intending to occupy a high place in the social hierarchy without much difficulty - all this seems to come into fundamental contradiction with what forms the basis of this tape about 'escape from modern civilization', where only money, hustle and hurry rule the world. But if you take a closer look at 'Lost Horizon'....

In terms of genre, this movie should have been classified as an adventure-fantasy movie and its genealogy should be traced back, for example, to Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Lost World' or Henry Rider Haggard's 'King Solomon's Spear' (by the way, the next film version of the latter novel also appeared in 1937, just like Capra's picture). At the same time, it is curious to find analogies closer to our days, for example, in the films 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' and 'Sky Captain and the World of the Future'. However, in essence, 'Lost Horizon' is a classic utopia about a 'beautiful paradise on Earth', albeit set by the director himself in the context of his socially-oriented works of the 30s: from 'Lady for a Day' to 'Meet John Doe'. As the story about the mythical country of Shangri-La, if we discard all the legendary, fairy-tale and fantasy motifs befitting a narrative of this style, in the end comes down to the 'great illusion' that a just society is possible at all, where peace-loving and hardworking people do everything solely for the benefit of themselves and those around them.

And also significant is the anti-war and anti-dictatorial pathos of the speeches of the main character, the English diplomat-romantic Robert Conway, and the one who is called the Supreme Lama in the plot - in the situation of growing anxiety in the world about the formation of the Third Reich and the very real danger of the beginning of the Second World War, Frank Capra's movie tried to warn mankind in its own way (of course, no movie can prevent anything! ), as did the Frenchman Jean Renoir's 'Grand Illusion', filmed in the same 1937. Incidentally, it was these screen prophecies in 'Lost Horizon' that were among the scenes that were later bought up and even lost altogether. During the careful and persistent restoration of Capra's tape, made at the American Film Institute in 1998, some of the phrases of the Supreme Lama about the future 'death machines' are given only in the background and in still images, because it was not possible to find the corresponding image in all the film libraries of the world.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (59.2 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.37:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.37:1

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#English: FLAC 2.0
#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
#French: Dolby Digital 2.0
#German: Dolby Digital 2.0
#Italian: Dolby Digital 2.0
#Spanish: Dolby Digital 2.0

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