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Herman Wouk's The Winds of War: German vs. American edition
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorNexus the Sixth
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I bought the old 80's mini series The Winds of War from amazon.de but to my surprise it seems to be an edited version. Compare the German edition...

Part 1: 1:48.39
Part 2: 2:01.11
Part 3: 1:17.10
Part 4: 1:25.37
Part 5: 1:26.54
Part 6: 2:00.52
Part 7: 2:04.54

Total: 12:05.17

with the American edition (according to DVD Profiler)
Part 1: 2:28
Part 2: 2:25
Part 3-4: 3:14
Part 5: 1:36
Part 6: 2:26
Part 7: 2:28

Total 14:39

Even if you take a possible 4% PAL speedup into account, over two hours are missing! Any ideas what could have been edited out?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorTomGaines
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As far as could gather now from a German DVD forum, it seems, that the basis for the DVD release was the cut which was aired on German TV at the time. And this one is said to be heavily cut.


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Bummer. Thanks for checking.
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