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      Siegfried

      1924 1 hr. 58 min. Fantasy Adventure Drama List
      92% 12 Reviews Tomatometer 91% 500+ Ratings Audience Score After Siegfried (Paul Richter), a nearly invulnerable warrior prince, hears of the beauty of Princess Kriemhild (Margarethe Schon), he travels to Burgundy to meet her. To impress her brother, King Gunther (Hanna Ralph), Siegfried ventures to Iceland with him, where he helps Gunther win over Brunhild (Theodor Loos). The appreciative Gunther approves of Siegfried's marriage to Kriemhild. However, hungry for more power, Brunhild spreads lies about Siegfried, leading to a fateful clash. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member The greatest 01 hour: and 58 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review dave j Strictly by the book of a mythical legendary folklore hero named Siegfried a son of a blacksmith who fought against a dragon just so he can be a dragonslayer and to help a king conquer a love interest named Brumhilda. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review andrey k Epic masterpiece! The legend of the Nibelungen couldn't have gotten a better movie version. It's perfect. Combining with expressionism of the period it's one of the greatest achievements of the German screen surpassing even Griffith's Intolerance in scale. The visuals are mind-blowing, the scenery is tremendous in its ingenuity, it's like you are witnessing the story of a bygone era of thousand years ago, it's a magnificent feeling. Fritz Lang is a genius in composing shots and commanding masses of people to make monumental visions. The first part called Siegfried is more of a drama. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Fritz Lang's 1st of 2 films based on the Norse myth and Wagner opera. The production is fantastically set with stunning imagery, which stands up still today. Particularly classic is the slaying of the dragon, considered by many the cutest rendition of Fafnir! This is essential viewing for fans of epic silent cinema. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member 7.8/10, my review: http://wp.me/p1eXom-2aF Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member A really beautiful looking film that moves extremely slowly. There feels like there's maybe a half hour of plot in the whole film. Still, it's a gorgeous production that like so many of Lang's silent films seems decades ahead of it's time. The only other thing I'd note is that Siegfried comes off as a major dick. He kills a dragon that seems to be nothing except sitting by a pond drinking some water when Siegfried comes along and stabs it in the head. Not cool, Siegfried. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Edmund Wilson The New Republic The producers seem to have been mistaken in going in for straight drama rather than for romance and magic. Jul 14, 2021 Full Review David Parkinson Empire Magazine This silent classic is a technical wonder for the day. Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Variety Staff Variety Lang's direction is consistent, and achieves plasticity, dignity, and very nearly power. Feb 23, 2012 Full Review Velona Pilcher Christian Science Monitor Once Siegfried has left the smithy and started into that forest... we enjoy one of those rare times when an hour or so of motion-picture screen can recall such names as Wagner, Appia. Van Gogh, Beowulf, Malory... and still hold its own. Feb 23, 2024 Full Review Tim Brayton Alternate Ending These are huge spaces for huge themes and a big story that had come to this movie with centuries of authority and dignity behind it. Rated: 5/5 Jul 11, 2022 Full Review Robert E. Sherwood LIFE Siegfried has been produced on a mammoth scale -- as of course it should be -- and is set forth in terms of utter unreality -- again as it should be. Oct 6, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis After Siegfried (Paul Richter), a nearly invulnerable warrior prince, hears of the beauty of Princess Kriemhild (Margarethe Schon), he travels to Burgundy to meet her. To impress her brother, King Gunther (Hanna Ralph), Siegfried ventures to Iceland with him, where he helps Gunther win over Brunhild (Theodor Loos). The appreciative Gunther approves of Siegfried's marriage to Kriemhild. However, hungry for more power, Brunhild spreads lies about Siegfried, leading to a fateful clash.
      Director
      Fritz Lang
      Screenwriter
      Thea von Harbou
      Production Co
      Decla-Bioscop AG, Universum Film A.G.
      Genre
      Fantasy, Adventure, Drama
      Release Date (DVD)
      Mar 22, 2007