 Dreyer had prepared a Danish version of the film which was based on the German version with Danish subtitles and title cards . The distributor could not afford to have the title cards completed in the manner they appear in the German version , which were instead finished with a more simple style . The distributor also wanted to make the pages in the book shown in the film as plain title cards which Dreyer did not allow , saying that " the old book is not an text in the ordinary sense , but an actor . Just as much as the others . " 
