A Man for All Seasons 4K 1966 Ultra HD 2160p

Storyline
The story takes place in sixteenth century England. But men like Sir Thomas More, who love life yet have the moral fiber to lay down their lives for their principles, are found in every century. Concentrating on the last seven years of the English Chancellor's life, the struggle between More and King Henry VIII hinges on Henry's determination to break with Rome so he can divorce his current wife and wed again, and good Catholic More's inability to go along with such heresy. More resigns as Chancellor, hoping to be able to live out his life as a private citizen. But Henry will settle for nothing less than that the much respected More give public approval to his headstrong course.

User Review
It is with great regret that I have to join those of my fellow moviegoers who have assessed this work by Fred Zinnemann with relative restraint. The reason for this, most likely, was that before the first viewing of the film, I expected to see a very different Mora from the one I actually saw. I expected to see a profound thinker, a humanist (which, by the way, is written about in most annotations to the movie), the author of the famous 'Utopia', which in fact laid the first foundations of the socialist idea, no matter who and how one felt about it (the latter is only fleetingly mentioned at the very beginning of the picture, and later the author never once returns to it, which personally seemed, let's say, a bit strange to me). On the screen Mor appeared as a dull scholastic, confused in political and theological sophisms and as a result became a victim of banal court intrigues, by the way, almost sending all his household after him to the scaffold. In this sense, I also agree that the numerous awards won by the film should be attributed either to the 'accumulated sum of previous merits' or to ideological reasons (we are talking about the awards of the Moscow Festival and favorable reviews of the papal curia).

In essence, instead of a philosophical drama, Zinnemann has created an ordinary historical-costume drama, which in essence differs little from a slew of similar movie productions. It was a bit sad to get this from a director who a decade earlier had made such serious works as 'Exactly at Noon' and 'From Now and Forever', which, in my opinion, deservedly took places in the list of the best pictures of world cinema, at least in the XX century.

The performance of most of the actors didn't make much of an impression either, mostly due to the fact that to many of them the concepts offered were decidedly shallow. Especially - paradoxically - this applies to the lead actor Paul Scofield, who is clearly used to much more fundamental work. The only, in general, expected acting success - episodic (again, unfortunately), but very bright in every sense the role of Orson Welles. Even John Hurt worked in the picture good, but not more than that, which, however, can be written off to the fact that in the mid 60's his acting career was just beginning. The rest were more like actors of rather mediocre provincial theater Shakespearean era with emphasized emotions and expletive lines.

To summarize, let me repeat the idea that if the author of the film had been a director who had not previously (and later) shown himself with pictures of much deeper content and high acting quality, it could well have been marked 'good', at least for its atmospheric quality. For Zinnemann, of course, this is by no means a failure, but it is clearly not his best work either, no matter what the Oscar academicians thought in 1967.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (77.1 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

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#English: FLAC 1.0
#English: Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos 7.1
#French: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
#German: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
#Italian: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
#Spanish: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono

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