Pristine. This *is* one of Sokurov's most intensely personal works.  I have all of Sokurov's works. SPIRITUAL VOICES is a meditative, multilayered masterwork that is haunting and revealing, both of Sokurov's obsessions and his 19th century artistic preoccupations. His unmediated gaze feels dangerous at times as he teases out a rich soundtrack to accompany his images --- images for which he is serving as director of photography as he does in TAURUS, and THE SUN, among others --- and the level of intimacy is intensely personal, particularly the details accreted, his approach to time, both that experienced by the soldiers and of narrative time in general, is richly Tolstoyan.  Tarkovsky considered Sokurov a genius at the beginning of his life as a young artist.  What Sokurov does here expands on specific problem-oriented pieces from earlier in his career in which he created and solved interesting problems he set himself.  Here the scale is deceptively reduced yet the vision is grandly, gorgeously executed.  It is an amazing film.  And the original, official release was a limited run and now lamentably out-of-print. Included is Sokurov's short 11-min film SOLDIER'S DREAM.  English subtitles.  Absolutely pristine, brand new quality, viewed twice by me, in consecutive viewings, so literally loaded into the player once. FREE SHIPPING w/in CONUS only. Thanks!