Night457 wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 2:57 am I agree that an old faded film print that looks like it has been dragged across the floor is not ideal, but is there anything available that looks BETTER? I really would prefer a recommendation rather than having to download every version I can find. I have seen versions of this that look worse, and I knew not to get my hopes up when I saw the latest sources were Telecine. But I am skeptical about the possibility of FIXING something with this damage with anything but a full restoration team and a lot of money. Maybe someone has the negative for a proper restoration someday.
So far I prefer the blizzardkid 3.29Gb TС-Rip because it looks basically the same as the huge original but is much smaller. I am still fighting with syncing the Russian subs. Maybe by accident I will end up getting better at reading phonetically the Cyrillic alphabet, which is at least a start to learning some of the language.
To restore this would require multiple copies of either negatives or final prints. Where one is damaged others won't be, and you can reconstruct all the pixels as they originally were. Then correct any brightness and color variations. Digital restoration requires choices to be made by the restorer in every damaged shot. A long and tedious process, which no one is likely to do unless they anticipate sales that will turn a profit - or they have enough money and love the movie enough to restore it at their own expense.