In this version, at the beginning of the film, there's a short narration (in German with burnt-in French subtitles), introducing the story. Characters in the film, however, speak in a made-up nonsense language.

Now this is a nice surprise indeed! After all those ugly fieldblended transfers of Jan Švankmajer's short films (reviewed here, and here), Kino finally made a transfer that's not a pain to watch. Albeit it runs with PAL speed-up (compare the playback time with the French version), it uses a complex combination of different pull-down patterns to get from 25 to 29.97 fps.

"OK, so the transfer is progressive," you say, "but what about the quality?" Well, you decide! ;-) And remember:

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