The Song of the Nibelungs - Nibelungenlied

[Mikai]

Well, rarely it happens but the german filmmakers managed to make a good film. It's not perfect and the battles have the same issues as you know them from Hollywood. The customs are however top notch, the landscapes shown beautiful captured and the story line was an interesting variation of the Nibelungenlied.

Perhaps interesting for some of you, to take inspiration from. The film should be available in English too 

[Hobgoblin]

Looks interesting! Fritz Lang set a high bar, though ...

[Rick]

My German is rudimentary, at best, so I'll be waiting for a good English dub or maybe just subtitles.
I'm a sucker for a well told variation on the Wolsung saga (well it's better than the Yngling saga!) - the last one was, I believe, the Sword of Xanten, a bit meh but just about watchable.

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

I will look out for it. There was a very good version of Beowulf many years back by Icelanders , IIRC that I would love to revisit if I could remember the name.

[Barry S]

Thanks for sharing the video.

I will look out for it. There was a very good version of Beowulf many years back by Icelanders , IIRC that I would love to revisit if I could remember the name.

Would it be this version of Beowulf.

I believe it was filmed in Iceland.

[Michi]

Well, rarely it happens but the german filmmakers managed to make a good film.

I read the 1986 book by Wolfgang Hohlbein some thirty years ago. It was a very well told story and a great change to learn the "villain" Hagen of Tronje's view on the Burgundians and the pop star Siegfried. I liked it even better than the "Rhine Gold" by Stephan Grundy, which told Siegfried's story in a new way.

However, I've yet to see the movie and wonder how it actually relates to the book... 

[carlos marighela]

You've seen the operas now see the movie. Hopefully it's a bit shorter in run time. Judging by the trailer the soundtrack isn't a patch on old Richard's.

I suppose it is considerably cheaper than an airfare to Bayreuth.

[Michi]

I suppose it is considerably cheaper than an airfare to Bayreuth.

That would be a one-hour car ride for me... 

[carlos marighela]

When I was eighteen I went out with a girl whose family flew over for the festival every other year. They were in the 'we have our own croquet lawn' bracket of wealthy'. Christ knows what she saw in me. Girl was lovely, her family were really quite Gothic in the way that the wealthy sometimes are. Her mother divorced her husband (my gf's father)and then remarried her father in-law (my gf's grandfather), the font of the family's wealth. Fucked up beyond all belief.

Sadly the army and other girls came between me, her and a freebie to Bayreuth. Oh well she does weird recitals of modern and obscure chamber music these days by all accounts. Hopefully she's happy.

[Rick]

Now there is an anecdote that will instantly derail a thread. How do you get mixed up in all these shenanigans, Carlos?

[Michi]

...I went out with a girl whose family ... were really quite Gothic in the way that the wealthy sometimes are. Her mother ... remarried her father in-law ...
Sadly the army and other girls came between me, her and ... weird recitals of modern and obscure chamber music ...

That should be a movie. 

[Mikai]

I read the 1986 book by Wolfgang Hohlbein some thirty years ago. It was a very well told story and a great change to learn the "villain" Hagen of Tronje's view on the Burgundians and the pop star Siegfried. I liked it even better than the "Rhine Gold" by Stephan Grundy, which told Siegfried's story in a new way.

I was not aware of the books. Putting them on my reading list!