This PAL DVD edition has been mastered from the 35mm reconstruction print conducted by Filmmuseum München from a duplicate negative struck in Japan from the only known nitrate print in 1959. The slightly windowboxed image features a good range of greytones from the very-good print materials. Images are often dark, as is intended by the filmmakers, contrasted by the white-accented painted sets and costumes; the image highlights are controlled and detailed.
The film is presented with two music scores: an improvised score performed by percussion-heavy SchlagEnsemble, and an ensemble score composed and conducted by Yati Durant. Both scores are nontraditional accompaniment to accent the film’s absurdist imagery; we favor the Durant score.
Supplemental material includes the featurette “Percussion Art auf den Internationalen Stummfilmtagen Bonn” (2008) (8 minutes), and an insert booklet with essays by Fritz Göttler, Inge Degenhardt and Jürgen Kasten.
Currently, this is the only home video edition of the film that we are aware of. An updated second edition was released by Edition Filmmuseum in August 2013. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.
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