Region 4 Winners and Losers

     There is no Region 1 US version of The Day of the Siege listed at present. The DVD cover of our Region 4 release gives a running time of 134 minutes, whereas the film actually runs 114:43. The Region 2 UK release, called Siege Lord II: The Day of the Siege, on Amazon.com is also listed at 134 minutes, whereas the Region 2 Polish release called Bitwa pod Wiedniem is listed at 115 minutes. So is our release cut? I can find no reviews or other information. It may be that the UK release is listed at 134 minutes, like ours, but the film runs 115. Or it may be the longer length is accurate. However, one might expect that as the film was an Italian / Polish coproduction that the Polish release could represent the full film. It is hard to say but to me the film feels truncated. Call it a draw I suppose until more information comes to hand.