Siegfried, son of King Sigmund, hears of the beautiful sister of Gunter, King of Worms, Kriemhild. On his way to Worms, he kills a dragon and finds a treasure, the Hort. He helps Gunther to...
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Title: Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Gertrud Arnold | ... | Queen Ute | |
| Margarete Schön | ... | Kriemhild | |
| Hanna Ralph | ... | Brunhild | |
| Paul Richter | ... | Siegfried | |
| Theodor Loos | ... | King Gunther | |
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Hans Carl Mueller | ... | Gernot |
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Erwin Biswanger | ... | Giselher |
| Bernhard Goetzke | ... | Person from Alzey | |
| Hans Adalbert Schlettow | ... | Hagen Tronje | |
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Hardy von Francois | ... | Dankwart |
| Georg John | ... | Mime the blacksmith / Alberich the Nibelung | |
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Frida Richard | ... | The Runes Maid |
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Yuri Yurovsky | ... | The Priest (as Georg Jurowski) |
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Iris Roberts | ... | The precious boy |
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Siegfried, son of King Sigmund, hears of the beautiful sister of Gunter, King of Worms, Kriemhild. On his way to Worms, he kills a dragon and finds a treasure, the Hort. He helps Gunther to win Krimhild, a mask that makes him invisible proves to be very useful. But because Brunhild is cursing Kriemhild, she tells her what really happened. Now Brunhild wants Siegfried's head. Is Gunther going to do her that favor? Written by Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
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A music score was recorded using the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process. However, this soundtrack version was presented only at the Century Theater in New York City beginning on 30 August 1925. See more »Goofs
When Kriemhild wakes up finding her dead husband, Siegfried's chest visibly rises and falls, indicating breathing. See more »Crazy Credits
Karl Vollbrecht receives a credit as "Erbauer des Drachens" -- 'dragon builder'. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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I think this is an important film to see even for historical reasons, since after "Die Nibelungen" (1924) Lang would make "Metropolis" (1927), something for which he is best remembered. But more importantly, this is in my mind astonishingly gripping and the far more satisfying film (or two).
It's fascinating how different the two parts are. As they are, their respective brilliance shines brightly, individually, and in itself the film as one grand epic reinvents itself come the revenge story of the latter half. The first film is the fantastical one, precursor to what we have now as high fantasy adaptations, mainly "The Lord of the Rings". In this sense "Siegfried" is shockingly modern, and here Lang succeeds far better than in "Metropolis", where he didn't have a national epic upon which to project the visual aesthetics, instead his own sense of national identity projected into a perceived future or alternate present. This is surprisingly lucid, which itself is a testimony of its filmic brilliance.
The court at Worms is as rigidly symmetrical and foreboding as one can be, and the film is full of such visual information, rigid symmetry that I bet greatly inspired Eisentein's "Ivan Groznyi" films (1944, 1958). In fact, I would love to see these masterworks by the two directors together someday, since their similarities go beyond style and visual language, also converging in their handling of national folklore in highly theatrical terms.
The new restoration of the project, made by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, is available on Blu-ray in both Region A and B, courtesy of Kino and Masters of Cinema respectively. What a treasure! In fact, the more I think of it, I can't wait to revisit it again.