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Die Nibelungen (Teil 1: Siegfried)
The final day of shooting for this epic in March 1924 turned into a media spectacle: before the assembled press in Babelsberg, the Etzel Palace was set ablaze by fire arrows—Lang himself reportedly fired the first one. This is just one of many legendary tales surrounding what was, at the time, the most expensive German film production—a project that even saw the creation of a 15-meter-long dragon. *Die Nibelungen* combines innovative technology with stylistic rigor: two sequences of seven "songs" (or chapters) recount the rise and fall of the hero Siegfried and the vengeful campaign of his widow, Kriemhild, which culminates in catastrophe. It stands not so much as an exercise in the national hero-worship onto which the film was later projected, but rather as a triumph of cinematic imagination—a monumental work conceived on a scale that remains unparalleled.
(Florian Widegger)