missing images

I remember reading about Sayat Nova in the early seventies, but as I was living overseas, I had no opportunity to see it. I've finally watched the DVD, and the film is as gorgeous and moving as everybody says it is. But one image was lacking. I distintively remember that the article I read in the seventies was illustrated with a picture of 3 youths in medieval costume playing the lute. I thought is was a very striking and beautiful imake, like an old mural painting. But this image was not in the film I saw on DVD. However, there were some extra's on the DVD, one being "Memories of Sayat Nova" by Levon Grigoryan from 2006. It is a retelling of the movie, but with many (mayby as much as half)images that do not figure in the film. Grigoryan is very sparse in his comments, he hints at several different cuts, at negatives being lost (or made to disappear) but it is unclear where that extra footage came from and why it was not in the film. It's clear that Paradjanov shot them, and most of them are extraordinary, not only the 3 lute playing youths, but other tableaux vivants from the poet's dream of his youth, and more images from the women being hammered by the wind, and very extended footage of the bath house, where the young boy spies on a group of men throwing pomegranates, a nude woman being washed by two old crones and several nude women resting on the floor. Does anybody know why these never made it into the film. Or had they been included but were later removed?