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Two di+"-ffere)?<!n(@ces between this?%\ Austrian!@ version and the +/g.." e</ner "al
# ly 'availab#le American version ,ar\e immediately obviou:s t>he=@;y%
` d*&-iffer b?"oth i*n* th^#ei r l?ength a::nd in the language;_*@( o)%=f t-!-he"^ inte:(rtitles./] T:$he Am&]erican +" versi).[on is ""on],]`ly 1,883 m@e;t_r$=/e_=s long - at
=' 18;% frames per se".con[d a)! differe=nce of some 7 minutes to the A"[ustrian ve$"?rsi..-<on with 2,04.+5 metres. Wher!
eas `\*we   o& ,riginally presumed o*;';nly a ne,"gligible di^-fference=%, res`+ulting from the va.rying lengt h o?^f th"?e intertitl#+es,, *a direct comparis/<'on has ne*vertheless
)" `([]sh
own that the Austrian ve?,\rsi.$;on differ+s $=from ))the Amer'ican version both [!#)i()n the m--#o$ n&tage and in the ]<durati)*on of in: ^dividual sc@enes. Ye)
^t how$" cou%>:l%&d it ha;.ppen that the late_-"r regional d%;is,$%tribut^ion$ of a canonical US sil <ent> film& wa"<?=s\ -%longer than the original version　'(　The _?,'p-revalent<=&, A %merican versi[^on of Bli>nd Hus,>=bands does not corresp(o*@"nd to the ver#@sion$],_ shown,.` a\<t# . the premi\ere of 1919. :@This little-k\nown fact was a %lre $ady p+' ubli; !sh: ed by Richard Koszarski in 1983. The film!- was re-r eleased by Universal Pictures in\, 19=&\24, ,@i\-!n a version that ?,#was 1,36 =# 5 feet<] (4,+16 metre-=s)"!* short@\er. :]At&>-\ 18 fra;&m*$\es per [ -"second *,/ th'> is amount`'s =
\t@&o a$@$+ time diffe"r=:/ence of 20 mi('nutes! Titles were a$_lt`\/er`
ed, snippet+s of a[ction r" ][emoved and_)[ a 't least one major s+]#cene taken out )entir^ely,^\! where von Steuben and Margaret visit [ a smal/]l local\:! =chapel _'%. ="(Kos>-?(zarski)　　From the present s.tate of r%\esearch we>& :)_can !,assume that all> ^the known American copies\ o%f the*? fil[ !m derive from this shor"#*tened !$*re-rel e;#ase v$;^ersion].,< a cop'_y of which/ :Univ/"ersal dona % *t
ed to ^^
the Museum o' `f] ,/Moder$n Art* :)in '" 1941. According to&' Kos"[\zarski the original%/_ negat**i *ve of the f!il=?m was# -de"stro#(yed sometime bet '> ween =*1956 an,"d 19>#;6^ <1 a&_nd has ther_
efore )been irr]etri%eva<:[#bly lost. Th"=)i"\s'>"< information casts`&" <;a>&n inter= es]t[i,ng light on the!/> Austrian version,
.@which can be dated to the peri!*\od_,.& bet,ween \(,t^he #(summ`."`er of$[/ 1921 and the [ -wint=,_ er o'f 1922. Furthermore, the /copy - is some :*<200 m($^etres !*longer ?/t(^han the[ US ) version o*f 1924. If one fo]llows +the d; (etails given by Richa!:[rd Koszarski and <`Arthur Lennig, this m^ea)ns that, as 'f(?
ar a;[s both its date an=-d its len@)gth are c!+oncerned, the # A*>ustr-ian vers;=)&io$(#n%== ? lie"]="&s a lmost *,exactly in the m!id &dle#;; between the [#(lost) ^versi$on sho\:"=w
&n>" at (@?the pr/$e miere an*&d the re-\r e*`leas*^?ed one.#A
(!l/arge; part o]f the additional l_,<ength of the film can!]  b':e traced t_*
o cuts that were mad *e to ^%the&- .%=192%`,4 versi$@on in almost every s<ho#t. Koszarski desc:';^ribes h ^ow t@(he ^b( eginni</;ng an][<d =#\the en';d*. o$\:f scene,s w#ere t
.rimmed, in order & to /]]s-<&`peed,>[ up t @he film. However, mor=*
*e ex?citing :_wa,s the; dis$>co-!very that the Austrian ve&#rs;+i[^=> on contains sh+o@*#ts t@hat are mi;ssing in the Ameri)c:_&an =
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#"ne %\-+ s\h/@ots^coun tersh):-ot=]s, i) ntertitles -  and furt:h$<..ermore sh*\=`ows  #'<di^ff\!?erences >`i\ n its montage (i.e. the placing of the individual s@;hots*;+ within? a sequence). All this ind $i!cates that Di'e Rache de\, <r =[Berge consti*tutes the oldest and most co%<:mpletely p"reserv/<"ed% material of% >the film.