- Prologue to 1959 reconstructed version: "Jean Gaborit and Jacques Durand reconstructed this film with the approval and advice of Jean Renoir, who dedicates this resurrection to the memory of André Bazin."
- There is an Italian edition of this film on DVD, distributed by DNA Srl: "LA REGOLA DEL GIOCO (1939) - New Widescreen Edition" (in double version 1.33:1 and 1.78:1), re-edited with the contribution of film historian Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available for streaming on some platforms
- 1) 07-07-1939 - Premiere at 113 minutes. Lost film, due to Nazi authorities burning many prints during the occupation of Paris in June 1940, and the loss of the negative print in the accidental allied bombardment of the film lab at Boulogne-sur-Seine in 1942.
- 2) July 7 to 28,1939 - Director's cuts to 100, 94, 91 and 81 minutes, trying (unsuccessfully) to accommodate the violent reception by the public during the exhibition in two theaters - reduced to one theatre in the third week. The film was banned by the government, claiming that it was bad for the morale of the country due to impending war.
- 3) 16-09-1945 - Re-release at 81 min, for showing in double bill theaters. The film still met with poor public reception.
- 4) August 23 to September 6, 1959 - Premiere at the Venice Film Festival, of the extended version at 106 minutes, a "resurrection" by film historians Jean Gaborit and Jacques Durand "with the approval and the advice of Jean Renoir" (as written on the opening credits of this version). The researchers salvaged excised and unused footage and created a new longer version. This version is the basis for subsequent theatrical and all home video releases. The parts that have been definitively lost correspond to two scenes for which sound exists, but not images. Renoir's interview (circa 1962) dismisses them as "not relevant" and "just a dialogue between Octave (Renoir) and André Jurieu (Roland Toutain) about the maids as objects of interest".
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