Different Versions?

Finally found the original 115 minute version of this, for those (few people) who are interested.
The differences are too many to detail here, but what's really interesting is that there is no one major sequence missing. Instead little bits are taken from almost every scene in the film, and a few small scenes. What's more some minor scenes are placed in different points of the film, causing them to lose their emphasis.

I want to add that I find this film absolutely fascinating and well worth further investigation

The three biggest differences are

1. Monster (Monstre) is female. This was an important element that the director talks about in the publicity materials: The most important characters in the film were supposed to be women-with Princess eventually taking control of Monster. Johnny Hallyday's Stump or Manchot (meaning Penguin!) has no real idea of the importance of what he's doing.
What is more Monster is more vulnerable in this version. Because she was programmed by Matti she experiences his memories and becomes scared. There's none of the wisecracking Monster later has

2. Princess speaks! She argues with Stump/Manchot, she has her own opinions, and she has more of a character.

3. Jurgen Prochnow's third character, the truck driver features from the beginning. In the long version, (As far as I can gather) The Doctor's testing of Mattie through the game of Terminus is also way of distracting the "greys" (the government) from his (and Monsieur's) real plan: to sneak blood producing clones across the borders in the truck.

Other notable changes
-The first scene is a rather beautiful shot of Princess is staring out of her cell with a moth crawling across the window. It's made clear in this version that she is another clone. It's then explained that Terminus is a new game combining elements from the Paris Dakar and American Football

-The Doctor is with Mattie in the car during their entrance to Terminus

-Much clearer introduction to Gus and the first chase. The first thing you see is her scaring the horses, the gas station she crashes into and the fairground she leaps over are more clearly established. The greys also wreck the fairground after Gus has cleared it, one woman crashes through the windshield. The truck driver is seen stalking her from the start. Most of the action scenes have better editing and the evnes better established throughout. The later border scene also has more establishing shots of the guards, their base and one guard sharing a joint with an Arabian gentleman

-After Gus is taken into the surgery she asks Princess to write a note, having nothing else to hand Princess uses a matchstick dipped in Gus's own blood

-The scenes of Gus being tortured and killed and Stump/Manchot getting drunk are not clumsily intercut. In this version he watches through the window, then gets Gus's note. He pretends to be drunk to fool the guards. While they think he's sleeping he steals the truck.

-There is a long scene after Manchot and Princess break through the border where Manchot celebrates his freedom, but then becomes saddened again after remembering Gus. This scene can briefly seen in the short version between the breakout and the fight with the trucker. Throughout the film Manchot has visions of Gus smiling.

-There are more scenes with the Doctor and Monsieur talking.These include one in which the Doctor hides behind his chair in fear and one in which Monsieur collapses to the floor in frustration (this is reused as his death scene in the American version). My French isn't good enough to understand them. It's also made clearer that Monsieur is hiding his identity from the Doctor

-There are more shots in the grey's factory/office, including one of them manipulating a very rudimentary map of Europe to locate Monster.

-The scenes of Manchot fixing Monster and having flashbacks now have point. There's the idea of Manchot teaching Monster to deal with his pain, and Manchot understanding Monster's pain

-There's a rather beautiful long shot of the greys locating Monster at. The camera sees the grey driving up, at the back on the city set then glides over the roof of the garage and then below it to Monster and Manchot working on him
-Slightly longer scene of Manchot being interrogated by the greys including a shot of a needle going into his arm.

-The truck driver attack comes right after the breakout, explaining why it's foggy in both scenes. It's longer and more violent. After he stabs Manchot in the arm we see blood pour out. After Manchot opens the truck and sees the clones, it turns out the truck driver is still alive, he stabs Manchot in the stomach. However Princess has taken control of Monster and crushes him against the truck.

-We aren't told that Monsieur blew up the clones, we never see Monsieur die. The clones just blow up and Monsieur disappears.

-The final scene is the same but a bit more ambiguous. Monster's radar is broken, Princess uses her intuition to find Mattie (she knows where to break through the wall) we are told Manchot is gravely injured. He has one final flash of Gus. He says he can't believe he won (?) But it still ends on a freeze frame. Was there more?

Almost none of the changes in the shorter version are for the better, making a an interesting if obscure film more boring and irritating, and causing some its points to be lost.

The one improvement is to put Stan Ridgways' End of the Line at the start to give it some energy rather than the more sombre music in the long version. Weirdly they also add unnecessary moments to a film they've cut 20 minutes out of. During the arm wrestling scenes, the American version adds reaction shots of a large bar woman with too much lipstick and a sour expression. These aren't in the longer version, though she is visible in the background. Maybe someone thought she looked funny. In a similar vein someone added the gurning arm wrestling man to Manchot's harrowing flashbacks.

More tantalisingly, there is more. Apparently Glenn had to cut the film down to under 2 hours, so there is more footage and more information about this film.