Region 4 Winners and Losers

     The best version of the film is the Region 2 German special edition with German DTS 5.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. This is a 2 disc set including a number of extras including a 3 part making of documentary running over 2 hours, trailer and other featurettes. There is also a similar Scandinavian Region 2; however neither have English subtitles for the feature or extras.

     The Region 1 US version has Dolby Digital 2.0 audio and includes the Views of Stalingrad extra of the Region 4 but adds deleted interview segments (17 min approx) and an interview with Professor Dr. Guido Knapp (10:43).

    For English speakers, this would normally mean a win to Region 1, but in place of the Region 4 original German and Russian spoken by the interviewees, translated by subtitles, the Region 1 has an English dub voiceover spoken by voice actors. To my mind the original language is to be preferred, but this may only be a personal preference.