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Help: looking for... 'Escape from New York' with FRENCH or GERMAN titles from LD or VHS

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Like most of my preservation efforts, I’m working on a release of this film for the Italian audience, however, I’m going to make use of seamless branching so this project will include both original and Italian versions of the intro titles. And since I’ll be fiddling with seamless branching it’s easy to add other alternative versions of the same segments, so I wanted to know if this film was ever released on home video in any other European country with localized title screens? Perhaps in the French or German Laserdiscs and/or VHS? Can anybody check it out for me? I would love to add more localized versions.

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Every time I have seen this film on German TV, it had English title and introduction text (which was translated by a narrator).

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TheHutt said:

Every time I have seen this film on German TV, it had English title and introduction text (which was translated by a narrator).

It’s the same here in Italy. I only found the translated text on a rare bootleg tape from the 80’s but I’m hoping to find eventual German or French text on laserdisc, perhaps VHS

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I did, he said he doesn’t have a player anymore so he can’t check. I also found a French LD on ebay and I’ve asked that seller too, now I’m waiting on his answer.
This film never came out in Laserdisc in Italy but the bootleg tape is enough to reconstruct all the intro titles, as a matter of fact I just finished those, down to the exact font used.