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Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache, 1924
Germany
Profile of Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache
The mood of Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache is atmospheric, exciting, and stylized. The plot centers around a tragic hero, a master warrior, and a master villain. It is a foreign, adventure, and period movie. Stylistically, it is a silent production and is epic. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. It takes place, at least partly, in a battlezone and in a palace, castle, or temple. It happens in the middle ages. Visually, it is black and white. The musical score is opera. It is known for being critically acclaimed.
Summary of Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache
In KRIEMHILD'S REVENGE, part two of Fritz Lang's epic based on Nordic mythology, DIE NIBELUNGEN, the plot picks up immediately following the assassination of Siegfried, husband to the king of Burgundy's sister, Kriemhild. Hateful and angry as her family refuses to take action against Hagen, King Gunther's uncle, who engineered the plot to kill Siegfried, Kriemhild swears to avenge her assassinated husband. Kriemhild flees Burgundy to marry the king of the Huns and begins an intricately planned vendetta. She bears her new Hun husband a child, then invites the other Burgundians to the kingdom of the Huns. Unable to convince anyone to kill Hagen, Kriemhild schemes to get the Huns to start a wild party, and eventually a fight erupts between the two clans, during which the child is murdered. The Huns declare war against the Burgundians. Kriemhild offers to exchange all of the Burgundians for the life of the cursed Hagen, but when this fails, she torches the Hun palace where the Burgundians are barricaded. As the destruction spreads, Kriemhild has a final and fatal encounter with Hagen, as the Niebelungen saga comes to its visually stunning and dramatic close. Using the visual tricks of the expressionist school and his usual psychological tools of love, desire, and melodrama, Lang deftly evokes the far away days of magic, massacres and devastation.
Details
| Country: | Germany |
| Release date: | 15 October 1928 |
| Runtime: | 129 min |
Cast and Crew
as Kriemhild
as Königin Ute
as König Gunther
as Gernot
