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Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

1924 · 148 min

A solemn, mythic pageant of towering images and slow ritual, majestic and strange, demanding patience but rewarding it with haunting grandeur.

Overview
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.

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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • betrayal
    • love
    • fate
    • power
    • revenge
    Places
    • fantasy world
    • countryside
    • single country house
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • nonlinear
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action4
    Horror2
    Humour1
    Realism3
    Romance4
    Tension5
    Darkness6
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight7

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    Details

    Genres
    adventure, drama, fantasy
    Directed by
    Fritz Lang
    Written by
    Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang
    Starring
    Gertrud Arnold, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph, Paul Richter, Theodor Loos, Hans Carl Mueller, Erwin Biswanger, Bernhard Goetzke
    Music
    Gottfried Huppertz, Richard Wagner
    Cinematography
    Carl Hoffmann, Günther Rittau
    Runtime
    148 min
    Country
    Germany
    Languages
    No Language

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