Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

(1924)

★ 7.8 IMDb · 164 votes

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Year: 1924

Runtime: 148 мин

Country: Germany

Director: Fritz Lang

Cast: Gertrud Arnold, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph, Paul Richter, Theodor Loos, Hans Carl Mueller, Erwin Biswanger, Bernhard Goetzke, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Hardy von Francois

Plot

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.

Bold, fearless Siegfried travels to King Gunther's castle. On the way he kills a dragon, and an evil dwarf king, thus gaining a treasure and a magic helmet of invisibility and illusion. In return for permission to marry Gunther's sister Kriemhild, Siegfried agrees to use the helmet to help the weak Gunther win the fierce warrior queen Brunhild by trickery. The two couples are married, but when the furious Brunhild discovers the deception she compels Gunther and his evil vassal Hagen into a conspiracy to murder Siegfried. Kriemhild vows revenge.