It's difficult finding any information about how this film was originally mixed. IMDb says "mono", but it's frequently wrong. Is the 5.1 track on the Milestone and Polish DMMS blu-rays a remix or the original mix?
It's definitely not an electronically reprocessed mono -> 5.1 upmix, but it isn't a complete 5.1 remix either. The surround-left and surround-right channels are identical. Effectively a single mono surround channel. But, this channel is only used literally 8 times in the entire film. It's completely redundant. But it does contain some information that doesn't exist in the other channels.
The front left, right, and center channels create a wide stereo soundstage, which anyone should notice during playback. They're dedicated channels, each with different sounds (some overlap still exists, as with any multichannel mix).
The LFE is empty.
Fidelity-wise, it's great. No issues.
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