DIE NIBELUNGEN

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DIE NIBELUNGEN

By Fritz LANG

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Drama - Completed 1924

"Die Nibelungen" is a two-part series of silent fantasy films created by Fritz Lang, consisting of "Die Nibelungen: Siegfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge". The films are based upon the epic poem "Nibelungenlied" written around AD 1200.

- Year of production
- 1924
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy, Action/Adventure
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Duration
- 282 mn
- Director(s)
- Fritz LANG
- Writer(s)
- Fritz LANG, Thea VON HARBOU
- Cast
- Paul RICHTER , Margarete SCHÖN, Hans Adalbert SCHLETTOW
- Producer(s)
- Erich POMMER
- Synopsis
- In Part One, Siegfried, the film's eponymous hero acquires the power of invincibility after slaying a dragon and bathing in the creature's blood. Later, an alliance through marriage between the hero and the royal clan of the Nibelungen turns treacherous, with Siegfried's sole weakness exploited.
  
  In Part Two, Kriemhilds Rache [Kriemhild's Revenge], Siegfried's widow travels to the remote land of the Huns to wed the monstrous Attila, and thereby enlist his forces in an act of vengeance that culminates in massacre, conflagration, and, under the auspices of Lang, one of the most exhilarating and terrifying end-sequences in all of cinema.