Director
Fritz Lang
Leading Actors/Actresses
Paul Richter
Supporting Actors/Actresses
Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph, Theodor Loos, Hans Adalbert Schelettow
Genre
Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Language
German
Awards
N/A
Date of Release
1924
Producer
Erich Pommer
Setting and Context
The Kingdom of Burgundy AD 1200
Narrator and Point of View
POV is that of Siegfried
Tone and Mood
Serious, Dramatic, Fantasy
Protagonist and Antagonist
Protagonist is Siegfried. Antagonists are Hagen and Brunhild
Major Conflict
Brunhild discovers that she was deceived into marrying the King.
Climax
Brunhild convinces the King and Hagen to kill Siegfried which they do and she kills herself to exact final revenge for the King's deceit.
Foreshadowing
Mime saying that Siegfried will never make it foreshadows the doom that lies ahead of him.
Understatement
It's understated that the dwarf treasure is cursed to King Gunther.
Innovations in Filming or Lighting or Camera Techniques
Transitions from the tree in full bloom to a skull and Siegfried becoming King Gunther with the invisibility mask
Allusions
The film is an allusion to the defeat of the Burgundians by Flavius Aetius with the help of Hunnic mercenaries in AD 436.
Paradox
Kremhild agrees to never show the armlet to any human eye, but paradoxically pulls it out immediately on Brunhild.
Parallelism
Siegfried standing in front of the blossomed tree with Kriemhild at the palace parallels him standing with the same type of tree as it transitions into a skull after his death.
