Region 4 Winners and Losers

    This release is identical to the UK Region 2 release, even down to the error concerning the soundtrack on the cover. The only difference is the artwork, the inclusion of the trailers and a better placed layer change.

    The film is available without English subtitles in France, as part of a 3 disc set called Coffret Louise Brooks, which also contains Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen and Prix de Beauté. It's not easy to find English language descriptions of this set, and one translation engine rendered the second Pabst film as Newspaper of a Lost Girl. The Pandora disc appears to include:

• Lou Doillon reading an article written by Brooks about Pabst 
• Portrait of Pabst - a featurette 
• Analysis of the film by Jacques Siclier 
• Two different soundtracks for the film, the one by Peer Raben and one by Stephan Olliva

    The Looking for Lulu documentary is included as an extra on one of the other discs in this set. What isn't included on this set is English subtitles.

    The French release may contain better footage from material that was found in the film archive at Gosfilmofond in Moscow after the present restoration, but I have been unable to confirm this.

    There were rumours of a Region 1 release by Criterion in 2004, but this did not transpire. It seems probable that Criterion will release this film on DVD at some point in the future, probably with the Gillian Anderson score with which it toured the US a few years ago.