Dune [videorecording] / screenplay, David Lynch ; producer, Raffaella De Laurentiis ; director, David Lynch.
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FilmPublisher number: 20184 | DVD VideoLanguage: English, French Summary language: Spanish Original language: English Publication details: Universal City, CA : Universal Home Video, 1998, c1984.Edition: Widescreen edDescription: 1 videodisc (2 hr., 17 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0783226063 :
- 9780783226064
- Dune (Motion picture).
- Creatures created by Carlo Rambaldi ; music by Toto ; costume design, Bob Ringwood ; production design, Anthony Masters ; director of photography, Freddie Francis.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
David Lynch wades through dark waters in his adaptation of Frank Herbert's cult science fiction novel. In condensing Herbert's rambling and complex book by eliminating characters and compacting events, Lynch succeeds in rendering the story incomprehensible to those unfamiliar with the novel and making the film look like a sketchy greatest hits collection of the book for Herbert fans. The story takes place in the year 10,191. The universe is governed through a system of feudal rule, presided over by Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV (José Ferrer), who appears to take his marching orders from something that resembles a talking vagina. In the kingdom are two rival houses -- the House of Atreides and the House of Harkonnen. Each house is trying to gain dominion over the universe, but that dominion can only be gained by the house that controls the Spice, a special substance that permits the folding of time. The Spice is only available on the desert world of Arrakis, or Dune. Shaddam, tired of the feuding between the two houses, permits the Atreides to take over the Spice production on Dune, while secretly working with the Harkonnens to launch a sneak attack on the Atreides and destroy them. The leader of the Atreides is Duke Leto (Jürgen Prochnow), who rules with the help of his concubine Jessica (Francesca Annis) and son Paul (Kyle MacLachlan). The rival Harkonnens are headed by the pus-oozing degenerate Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Kenneth McMillan, in a thoroughly through-the-roof performance) and his two unsavory nephews, Rabban (Paul L. Smith) and Feyd (Sting). When his father is murdered by the Harkonnens, Paul escapes to Dune, where he is greeted by the Fremen (the desert dwellers on Dune who prepare the Spice) as the messiah foretold in Fremen legend. Paul assumes the mantle of messiah and leads the Fremen in a revolt that topples the balance of power in the universe. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
Based on the novel by Frank Herbert.
Videodisc release of the 1984 motion picture by Dino De Laurentiis Corporation.
Creatures created by Carlo Rambaldi ; music by Toto ; costume design, Bob Ringwood ; production design, Anthony Masters ; director of photography, Freddie Francis.
Kyle MacLachlan, José Ferrer, Max Von Sydow, Linda Hunt, Sting.
MacLachlan is Paul Atreides, son of Duke Leto, who struggles with the native inhabitants of the dry planet Arrakis (Dune) to overthrow the terrible Baron Harkonnen and his family and control the special product of the planet, a mind-altering spice produced by giant sand worms.
Rated: PG-13.
DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital, single layer.
English (5.1 surround) or French (Dolby surround) dialogue, Spanish subtitles; closed captioned.