Sorry but I bought the German DVD some years ago and SPUK UM MITTERNACHT is NOT restored.
The vertical scratch remains in the full length or almost (excepted of course for the scenes taken from the US version).
And in fact they explain in the bonus that they didn't restore the movie INTENTIONALLY to give us an idea of the current state of the film, "exactly as it was found in the Moscow archive".
Well, I can understand the decision.
The big problem being that this virtuous decision is immediately counterbalanced by the inclusion of these scenes from the US version, in order to give a coherent continuity !
The best way would have been of course:
a) to include the German-language print with the scratch and without the American scenes.
b) to add the RESTORED version - without the scratch and without the scenes from the US version
and c) a final version (for the time being at least) without the scratch and with the added scenes from the US version.
It was not impossible I suppose, and THIS could be really called a "restoration"
