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Saturday, Feb 2, 2019
4:30 PM (148 mins)
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BAMPFA
The Nibelungen, Part I: Siegfried’s Death
(Siegfrieds Tod)
Digital Restoration
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On Piano
Paul Richter, Margarethe Schön, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Georg August Koch,
Lang’s two-part superproduction of the thirteenth-century Nordic saga that also inspired Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung is a triumph of studio-created artifice in the silent era. Sets, lighting, costumes, camerawork, and special effects all contribute to the monumental re-creation of a world at the dawn of time, when fire-breathing dragons roam the earth and the Nibelungen, a race of dwarfs, bestow magical powers onto the warrior Siegfried (Paul Richter). Part I takes the story through Siegfried’s marriage to the beautiful Kriemhild (Margarethe Schön) and his death at the hands of Hagen.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Fritz Lang
- Thea von Harbou
Cinematographer
- Carl Hoffmann
- Günther Rittau
- Walter Ruttman
Language
- Silent
- with German intertitles and English subtitles
Print Info
- B&W
- DCP
- 148 mins
Source
- Murnau-Stiftung