»DIE NIBELUNGEN« TEIL 1: »SIEGFRIED«

Fritz Lang’s monumental adaptation of this leg- end in 1924 elevated the medium of film into an art form: viewers were not admitted after the film had started and the work was presented everywhere with film music especially com- posed by Gottfried Huppertz.

Part One uses ornate, Romantic and Jugendstil images and some sophisticated film tricks to tell the story of Siegfried, who slays the lifesized studio dragon, conquers the Nibelungs’ horde and wins the fair Kriemhild. On behalf of her brother, King Gunter, he invisibly forces the emancipated Brunhild into a seas of flames. She, however, will gain her revenge with a plot... Part Two, ‘Kriemhild’s Revenge’ follows on 5.9.