Die Nibelungen (Silent Fantasy Film 1924) | Siegfried (Part 1 - ENG&RUS SUB)

Die Nibelungen ("The Nibelungs") is a two-part series of silent fantasy films created by Austrian director Fritz Lang in 1924, consisting of Die Nibelungen: Siegfried and Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge. Click on CC for English and Russian subtitles.

Part 2. Kriemhild's Revenge: https://rumble.com/v49332c-die-nibelungenthe-nibelungs-by-fritz-lang-kriemhilds-revenge-part-2-eng-and.html

The scenarios for both films were co-written by Lang's then-wife Thea von Harbou, based upon the epic poem Nibelungenlied written around AD 1200.

The magnificent poetic saga of Siegfried is told through seven cantos. 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.

Cast & Characters:
Paul Richter as King Siegfried of Xanten
Margarete Schön as Kriemhild of Burgund
Hans Adalbert Schlettow as Hagen of Tronje
Theodor Loos as King Gunther of Burgund
Hanna Ralph as Queen Brunhild of Isenland
Rudolf Klein-Rogge as King Etzel
Bernhard Goetzke as Volker of Alzey
Rudolf Rittner as Margrave Rüdiger of Bechlarn
Georg John as Mime the Goldsmith / Alberich the Dwarf / Blaodel (Etzel's brother)
Gertrud Arnold as Queen Ute of Burgund, Gunther's mother
Hans Carl Müller as Gerenot of Burgund, Gunther's brother
Erwin Biswanger as Giselher of Burgund, Gunther's brother
Fritz Alberti as Dietrich of Bern
Georg August Koch as Hildebrandt, Dietrich's aide
Annie Röttgen as Dietlind of Bechlarn
Frida Richard as the Runenmagd, wench at the Burgund court
Georg Jurowski as the priest at the Burgund court