Siegfried siegfrieds death dec 11, 20 if you like the lord of the rings trilogy, you may want to check out this german silent fantasy epic. Siegfried still holds up pretty well for much of its running time. The movies themselves hold up remarkably well, shining examples of just how interesting, creative and adventurous silent cinema could be. With paul richter, margarete schon, theodor loos, gertrud arnold. And as with so much early lang, they are fascinating works touched with moments of brilliance. Fritz lang by roderick heath the ancient germanic and scandinavian tales of siegfried or sigurd were vital building blocks for. For part i, siegfried, lang employs a painterly style, creating symmetry of figures within elaborate.
Court intrigue and backstabbings are more operatic than loony deaths. The silent films is an excellent set, presenting a collection of the directors classic silent works in, mostly, excellent shape, with lossless audio and a nice selection of extras. One of the best known directors of the german school of expressionism, he was dubbed the master of darkness by the british film institute. Based on a thirteenth century nordic saga, this film is larger than life. Such a case would, necessarily, wage an uphill battle against implications of infamy. I always loved tolkiens trilogy, which i have read several times since my youth, but lotr the film s i was not so impressed with. The warrior hero and seemingly invincible siegfried marries kriemhild, the sister of the burgundian king. If the first part was 91 minutes and the second part was 110, that makes 201 minutes. It is the complete triumph of the ornamental over the human. So here is every silent film that i could find, on bluray sorted by distributor, then. Siegfried 1924 not rated 1h 40min adventure, drama, fantasy 1924 poland siegfried, son of king sigmund, hears of the beautiful sister of gunter, king of worms, kriemhild. Even films with a reputation this massive were not properly preserved, meaning that any true and complete negative is long gone. Housed inside a blue, ecocutout case on opposing panels and a sturdy slipcover, both go straight to the main menu at.
Produced by the friedrichwilhelmmurnaustiftung, in cooperation with filmmuseum potsdam. Certain specific human ornaments in the film also denote as well the omnipotence of dictatorship. No trace of wagner here except unconsciously, and the screenplay sticks faithfully to the original norse myth, unlike the librettos of wagner. He helps gunther to win krimhild, a mask that makes him invisible proves to be very useful. Margarete schoen, theodor loos, paul richter, fritz lang. The warrior hero and seemingly invincible siegfried marries kriemhild, the sister of the burgundian king who is in pursuit of icelandic warrior queen, brunhild. Metropolis full movie fritz lang rescore by the new pollutants. The result is a film of startling expressionistic power, and a summit of fritz langs artistry. Siegfried, son of king sigmund, hears of the beautiful sister of gunter, king of worms, kriemhild. Langs purview encompasses police states and criminal networks, surveillance systems and media manipulations, information economies and mob rule. Those fighting shy of silent films should have no reason not to invest. Voir plus didees sur le theme walkyrie, oublie moi et film muet.
So here is every silent film that i could find, on bluray sorted by distributor, then year. One of the greatest artistic and technical achievements of the german silent cinema. Our new desktop experience was built to be your music destination. The nibelungen by dieter wedel is not really a film, its the recording of the play by moritz rinke presented in worms, where the nibelungen are originally set, at its nibelungen festival.
On his way to worms, he kills a dragon and finds a treasure, the hort. Saw this film when it came out in mexico city, around christmass of 1967. Its extraordinary setpieces, archetypal themes, and unrestrained ambition. Link to a facsimile manuscript version c of the nibelungenlied, housed in the badische landesbibliothek in karlruhe, germany. These are two movies just screaming for a dvd release. The film is a masterly presentation of two aspects of the nibelungen. Kino presents langs 1924 masterpiece in a stunning, 1080p upgrade. The film they subsequently cowrote and that lang directed was so epic in length 381 minutes in total that it was released as two separate features. The epic film is spread across two region a, bd50 discs, with the second disc containing supplements.
Since i figured this list would be useful to everyone, i decided to make a complete list of all silent films on bluray. A ccording to consensus, metropolis is the undisputed heavyweight champ not only of fritz langs filmography, but also of german silent cinema. This set of the two films making up the nibelungen is a restored and ascompleteascanbe presentation of this major work of the silent cinema era. As a personal project for myself, i decided to compile a list of all the silent films released on bluray that i still need to purchase.
Its fantastical elements are quaint, in only the way that silent movies can be, and enhance the dreamlike qualities the film shares with most silent pictures. More than a career retrospective, the harvard film archives complete fritz lang unrolls as a visionary panorama of what max weber called the disenchantment of the world. The nibelungen by dieter wedel is not really a film, its the recording of the play by moritz rinke. The quietus film film features siegfried the dragon. And so i understand why it is considered a masterpiece.
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