[Gocamino] Video question

[blaroli at aol.com]

Hello you all,
While transferring the video "Within the Way Without" from PAL to NSTC so that someone in  the U.S. may watch it I got to see it all over again.
It is simply wonderful.... in every possible way. 
It was made professionally by someone named Laurence Boulting who seems to be an experienced British director and producer. The narration is provided by Richard Attenborough who made the movie "Ghandi" some years ago.
The video follows three pilgrims to Santiago, a Catholic man from Holland, in his fifties or so, who started out from SJPP in the winter, a young Buddhist poetess from Japan who started out in the Spring, and a young woman from Brasil who, like a great many Brasilians,  combines Catholicism with a type of Africa-based religion like Condonmble and Macumba.
All three start out at SJPP and the video shows them getting their credential either in SJPP or Roncesvalles and going through ever step so well known, and so dear, to most of us.
The three express their impressions and their emotions throughout, in a manner that we will understand all too well because we have felt them, although we may not have been able to put them into words as eloquently as these three.
I don't think that a stone is left untouched in the emotional garden.... and the eloquent expressions are all too beautiful and too true. The Dutch man, for instance, refers to the churches and monuments as "Human representations of a spiritual idea and the truth behind it".... and he speaks of the Camino being "as invisible as music".... and on, and on.
The cinematography is superb, and the flashes back and forth to the pilgrims hometown and their return thereto is unbelievably touching.
The familiar spots, and people, are there (Majarin, Jato, and so on)... and the hospitaleros and albergues will bring soul-homesickness to any pilgrim.
The video may be ordered directly from the Saint James Confraternity through their website.  So far I have purchased three (gave away the first and lost the second), and they all arrived in New York within a week of being ordered at a total cost, including postage, of about $25.00 U.S. Dollars.
The name of the video is odd:" Within the Way Without" and I must admit that I do not understand its meaning.  It seems that the name was taken from a haiku (a 17-syllable Japanese verse from) which reads:  "The paths separate and meet again within the way without". The video also shows a name in Spanish which is, simply, "Three on the Camino".
And here is my question:  Why is the video only available in PAL, and, more importantly, why are there no subtitles in other languages.  While at the beginning of the video there is a choice of languages for SODs (?), apparently this applies only to the signs on the screen.  The narrative is in English, and when the Japanese young woman speaks, or thinks aloud, English subtitles appear, as they do when the Brasilian pilgrim speaks.
I know that I am a perfect dolt when it comes to computers and such, and I am hoping that I've missed something in the DVD which would allow for subtitles in other languages.  I would so very much like to share this wonderful DVD with my Spanish, Brasilian and Italian friends.
Of the twenty, or so, good DVDs about the Camino that I have seen this one is the best, by far, period.  True, the Spanish TV people have made some wonderful ones (two last year), but they are pretty much in a reverential documentary style and, while beautiful and informative, they lack the human every-day-of-a-pilgrim touch that this "Within the Way Without" contains so magnificently.
If you get it, you'll find answers to the questions that keep repeating themselves here:  "Why make the Camino?" "What is the meaning?" "The purpose?", "Faith or no-faith?", "What if you don't finish?" And the small epiphanies that begin to emerge as one drops the many layers and busyness of life and faces the simple act of walking.

Hopefully someone reading this message can tell me whether, and how, subtitles in other languages may be revealed.

Hugs!

Rosina 
 
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