zombie84 said:
It's not said whether the German version was dubbed or subtitled; if it was subtitled, it's no wonder the 1978 cut was ported, since it required extremely little work, unlike dubbing.

Germans dub films, just like Italians and French (probably Spanish too, I've never been to spain, couldn't say for sure)

By the way the Italian guy on youtube said he can arrange to send me the file. He downloaded it from emule a long time ago. I hope to hear from him soon again. If the Italian version always had the flashback sequence then we might have in our hand a much higher quality version of the one I sent to SilverWook with no "pan-scan adaptations"! (whatever they are called)

Is it just me or this is all really exciting?