Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King (2004)
- Original title
- Ring of the Nibelungs
- Directed by
- Uli Edel
- Genre
- drama film, fantasy film
- Country
- South Africa, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy
- Runtime
- 3h 04m
- Rated
- PG-13
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 159 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A young blacksmith named Siegfried slays a dragon and gains magical powers. He becomes entangled in a feud between kingdoms and a fraught romance with a warrior queen.
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What happens
Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King (also known, in different cuts, formats and markets, as Ring of the Nibelungs, Die Nibelungen, Curse of the Ring and Sword of Xanten) is a 2004 German television film directed by Uli Edel and starring Kristanna Loken, Benno Fürmann, Alicia Witt and Max von Sydow. The film is based on the Norse mythology story Völsungasaga and the German epic poem Nibelungenlied, which tells the mythological story of Siegfried the Dragon-Slayer. Richard Wagner's music dramas Siegfried and Götterdämmerung are based on the same material. Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King was written by the husband and wife team of Diane Duane and Peter Morwood and is a Tandem Communications production. It was filmed entirely in South Africa. Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King had a theatrical release in the United Kingdom on 19 November 2004. The German-language version, Die Nibelungen, was shown on the German television channel Sat.1 on 29 and 30 November 2004. It was the highest-rated mini-series on German television that year. On 23 December 2005 Channel 4 showed the entire series in one evening under the title Sword of Xanten, describing it as a "megafeature". It was shown on the SciFi Channel on 27 March 2006, retitled Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King for the United States audience, and minus about one hour of material. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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