BBC Michael Palin's New Europe 1of7 HDTV x264 AC3 MVGroup

BBC Michael Palin's New Europe 1of7 HDTV x264 AC3 MVGroup



Episode 1. War and Peace - Countries visited: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Albania

Genial explorer Michael Palin packs his travel bag for a journey behind what used to be called the Iron Curtain. Palin, as charming and unjudgmental as always, chats animatedly to locals in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Albania on

the first leg of his trip. It's a fairly gentle stroll, as opposed to a gruelling journey in the mould of Pole to Pole and Around the World in 80 Days. And it takes a little while to find its feet, feeling initially like a holiday programme, as everything looks so lovely and the inhabitants of each of the countries all seem pretty happy with their lot after the collapse of Communism. But New Europe does weave its spell, particularly when Palin visits the brutalised city of Mostar, symbol of the pointless slaughter of the Balkan war, with its Muslim cemetery full of young lives ended prematurely. But even here, now that its fabled bridge has been restored after being destroyed in 1993, residents are slowly feeling their way to normality - even though the surrounding countryside is littered with unexploded land mines.



Tech Spec for Hi-Def

Video Codec: x264 CABAC

Video Bitrate: 3216 KB/s

Video Aspect Ratio: 1:777

Video Resolution: 1280 x 720

Audio Codec: (Dolby AC3)

Audio Bitrate: 192 kb/s 48000Hz

Run-Time: 59mins

Framerate: 25FPS

Number of Parts: 7

Part Size: 1.40GB

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Subtitles: merged (no subtitles in episode 1)

Source: DVB-S