Specialty CollectionGenre: FOREIGN FILMS
Description: FANTASY, ADVENTURE. LEGEND. THE DRAGON-KILLING SWORD OF HEROIC SIEGRFRIED IS AGAIN UNSHEATHED FOR BATTLE - AND THIS TIME IT'S WIELDED BY AN AVENGING ANGEL! DIRECTOR FRITZ LANG TOPS THE TRIUMPH OF SIEGFRIED WITH THIS FILM, THE SECOND FEATURE-LENGTH FILM IN HIS SPECTACULAR INTERPRETATION OF THE NIEBELUNGENLEID. THE STORY OF KRIEMHILDE'S REVENGE IS AS HEROICALLY STRAIGHTFORWARD AS ITS TITLE - AND AS CONSTANTLY INVENTIVE AND STUNNING AS LANG'S ENORMOUS CREATIVITY AND THE FILM'S EQUALLY ENORMOUS BUDGET WOULD ALLOW. "A MINT OF MONEY PROBABLY WENT INTO ITS PRODUCTION," SAID THE NEW YORK TIMES' MORDAUNT HALL IN HIS GLOWING REVIEW. "NOTHING IS DONE BY HALVES IN THIS PICTURE." KRIEMHILDE, WIDOWED WHEN HER FAMILY MURDERS SIEGFRIED, IS DETERMINED TO AVENGE HIS DEATH. SHE MARRIES THE NOTORIOUS KING OF THE HUNS, ATTILA THE HUN, INVITES HER FELLOW COUNTRYMEN TO A FEAST AT HER NEW CASTLE...AND SETS IN MOTION A WITHERING VENDETTA OF MASSACRES, CHAOS AND DEVASTATION THAT'S EXTRAORDINARY IN SCALE AND EFFECT. IN THE CAVALRY CHARGE SEQUENCE ALONE, SOME 400 REAL-LIFE RUSSIAN CAVALRYMEN PORTRAY THE RAMPAGING HUNS.
