115 minutes or 157 minutes?


IMDB has this movie lasting 115 minutes but the copy I have ends at 2hrs. 37 mins. Not sure why the descrepancy, can anyone clue me in? This is one of the great classic anti-war films but since it was produced under the watchful eye of an Iron Curtain "decorator" I'm not surprised. It's in keeping with the watch the peaceful hand and not the war-mongereing hand policy of the time.

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From what I've read, the shorter version was shown outside Romania, and was (so I think, but am not sure) the one screened at Cannes. The longer one, which I have, and have just watched, is the 157 minute one that you have. We might have gotten if from the same source.

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