Kapcsolat — Contact, Warner Bros. (DVD)

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Product Details

• UPC: 5999010440065
• Product Type: DVD Video
• Director: Robert Zemeckis
• Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, David Morse
• Release Year: 1997
• Genre: Science Fiction, Drama
• Publisher / Distributor: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
• Country of Producing: Hungary
• Language: Hungarian (dubbed), English

Product Features

• Format: DVD Video, single disc
• Runtime: approx. 150 minutes
• Audio: Hungarian, English (Dolby Digital)
• Subtitles: Hungarian
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 widescreen
• Region: PAL Region 2
• Rating: 12

Overview

SETI scientist Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) detects a signal from the star Vega. What it contains and what it demands changes everything. Contact is science fiction that uses the extraterrestrial premise as a lens for something much harder to stage: the collision between empirical rigour and the human need to believe in something beyond the provable. Zemeckis, adapting Carl Sagan's 1985 novel, never makes the film's central conflict cheap — the debate between Ellie's scientific scepticism and Palmer Joss's faith (Matthew McConaughey) is conducted at a level that respects both positions.

At 150 minutes, the film earns its length. Foster's performance is grounded and specific — she's playing a scientist, not a movie scientist, and the distinction matters. The final act remains genuinely controversial: some find it transcendent, some find it evasive. Either way, it's a film that takes both questions and ambiguity seriously, which is rarer than it should be. This Hungarian Warner edition includes both the dubbed track and the original English.

Interesting Facts

• Carl Sagan co-wrote the screenplay alongside his wife Ann Druyan, and both were deeply involved in the production; Sagan died in December 1996 before the film was completed.
• The film's opening sequence — a continuous backward pull from Earth through the solar system, the galaxy, and beyond, using real radio transmissions to mark how far Earth's signals have travelled — is one of the most technically precise and conceptually ambitious openings in science fiction film.
• Jodie Foster spent time with actual SETI scientists to prepare for the role, and her portrayal is considered unusually accurate in depicting the texture of radio astronomy fieldwork.
• The film cost approximately $90 million and earned over $171 million worldwide, making it a substantial commercial success while maintaining its serious dramatic ambitions.
• Robert Zemeckis used the film to experiment with seamlessly inserting real political figures (including President Clinton) into the narrative via archival footage — a technique he had refined on Forrest Gump.
• The Vega signal in the film encodes the instructions for building a mysterious machine — a premise Sagan first explored in his 1979 essay "Is There Intelligent Life on Earth?"

Publishers

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Hungarian edition with dubbed track. © 1997 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Based on the novel Contact by Carl Sagan.

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