Michael Palin - New Europe

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Actor: Michael Palin
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Polish (Subtitled); Russian (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 413 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner

DVD Reviews of Michael Palin - New Europe

DVD Review: Another fun travel adventure with Mr. Palin
Summary: 5 Stars

I have been a big fan of Mr. Palin's travel documentaries for many years. This one did not dissappoint me. These documentaries take an interesting look at New Europe including Estonia, Hungary etc.. They always seem to interview interesting people and visit interesting sites. The choices are eccentric but almost always enlighting.

Do not expect a Monty Pythonesque humor here, this is a sincere look at his subject. Overall a fun and great learning experience.

DVD Review: Love Palin
Summary: 5 Stars

My husband and I are hooked on Palin's travelogs. I highly recommend them. He is interesting, humorous, and just plain enjoyable.

DVD Review: MICHAEL PALIN'S BEST
Summary: 5 Stars

Michael Palin's New Europe is just brilliant. You will find yourself
into a brand new World even if you know some of the countries already.
My only comment is that I would have liked to see more of the cities i.e.
the interresting places like the Fisher Castle in Budapest.
Otherwise the DVD's are really good, and I liked the trainrides as well.

DVD Review: Michael Palin - New Europe
Summary: 5 Stars

Funny, informative, entertaining. Whenever Michael Palin takes us along to explore the world it's always an excellent adventure. Highly recommended.

DVD Review: This Series is a Remarkable Document
Summary: 5 Stars

I found this new series by Michael Palin to be remarkable.
As has been mentioned, he investigates and travels through parts of Europe not necessarily familiar to all people as they have not always been accesible for one reason or another (generally speaking, communism).
The fact of the matter is that many of these countries paid a remarkably high price to be the "free" Europe they are today.
Many of these countries are very small and offered both Nazi Germany and then Stalinist Russia a great deal of resistance and suffered accordingly. Michael Palin does not shy away from these facts and this approach makes this quite different from his other travelogues.
This particular series is imbued with a definite sense of melancholy and bittersweet feelings.
Rather than the lack of energy some reviewers seem to sense, I feel that Michael Palin has shown a remarkable degree of maturity and intelligence in his approach to this series.
This is a very good series and, I feel, a really good documentation of where these countries are today. The whole thing is approached with wit, wisdom, grace and respect.
I've been to Estonia, Finland and Hungary and you cannot leave these countries without an enormous amount of respect for these people for what they have accomplished in so little time as well as the resistance they offered their oppressors.
I am pretty certain I will be watching this series more than once and I do highly recommend it.

Description of Michael Palin - New Europe

Michael Palin?s latest voyage of discovery sees him venture into territory once forbidden ? the new Europe previously shrouded behind the Iron Curtain. Now that the Iron Curtain has lifted and the Cold War is over Michael can enjoy a new freedom to roam unhindered across an unexplored swathe of his own continent. From Estonia in the north to Turkey in the south where Europe reaches out to Asia across the Bosphorus Michael?s journey takes him through twenty countries. Some Central European some Eastern European some straddling continents and all utterly compelling.Running Time: 413 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?TELEVISION/BBC UPC:?883929006250 Manufacturer No:?1000036456

With so much media and popular attention focused on the nations and cultures of Western Europe, it's easy to forget that much of Europe is relatively new to the western world: new to democracy, new nations with new governments, finding ways to create their new cultures and a sense of national identity in the aftermath of post-Soviet life. World traveler Michael Palin, having ventured all over the world, smartly chooses Eastern Europe as the destination for this BBC special, to see, now that the iron curtain has been pulled aside, what life there is really like. Like his previous adventures, such as Pole to Pole and Around the Rim, Palin's endless fascination and infectious sense of curiosity in the places he visits and people he meets, is what really makes the show tick. Whether he's exploring the remarkable Turkish community of G?reme, where rocks have been carved to form homes, or boating down a river in Romania to visit the ancestral home of Vlad the Impaler (the home of Bram Stoker's Count Dracula), Palin finds a way to keep the discoveries coming. Traveling through 20 countries as diverse as Turkey and Russia can be taxing, even on a well-traveled celebrity, but with his natural-born wit he keeps the program light enough to be entertaining (a few laughs help to leaven the sometimes dreary reality of certain locales), and succeeds in shining a new light into parts of the world long obscured by a shroud of darkness. --Daniel Vancini

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