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Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache
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The second film, same Ufa production. After Siegfried's murder, Kriemhild (Margarete Schön) waits, then marries Etzel the Hun to get an army. The Burgundians accept the invitation. Lang and Thea von Harbou stage the last act as a siege of a hall: extras locked into rectangles, fire used as architecture. If Siegfried is a fairy tale, this is the bill.
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The same architecture, now used as a cage. The burning hall at the end is the collection's argument in one set piece: geometry stops being beautiful and becomes a place people cannot get out of.
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