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

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)

Trailer

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