Questions tagged [die-nibelungen]

1924 German silent epic directed by Fritz Lang based on the epic poem Nibelungenlied. Consisting of the two parts "Siegfried" and "Kriemhild's Revenge" (orig.: "Kriemhilds Rache").

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What is the reason for Brunhild's suicide?

At the end of Fritz Lang's 1924 silent movie Die Nibelungen: Siegfried, when Kriemhild enters the minster, she sees that Brunhild has commited suicide at the corpse of Siegfried, calmly remarking ...
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Why the yellow-orange tinting of the entire movie?

Fritz Lang's silent epic Die Nibelungen is completely tinted in a yellow-orange tone (and the film has only been reconstructed rather recently (2010) to this original color tinting using the same ...