Hagbard and Signe
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Hagbard and Signe |
| Original title | The red cap |
| Country of production |
Denmark , Sweden , Iceland |
| original language |
Danish , Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gabriel Axel |
| script | Gabriel Axel |
| production | Gösta Bergqvist , Just Betzer , Johan Bonnier , Bent Christensen , Benedikt Árnason |
| music | Per Nørgård |
| camera | Henning Bendtsen |
| cut | Lars Brydesen |
| occupation | |
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Hagbard and Signe (original title: Den røde kappe , German: The red coat ) is a Danish-Swedish-Icelandic historical film from 1967 by Gabriel Axel , who also wrote the screenplay. It is based on the Scandinavian poem Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus and tells a tragic love story in the style of Romeo and Juliet . Oleg Vidov , Gitte Hænning , Eva Dahlbeck and Birgitte Federspiel can be seen in the leading roles . The work had its world premiere on January 16, 1967 in Denmark. In the Federal Republic of Germany it was first shown in the cinema on October 31, 1968.
action
The focus of the action is the choice of bride and blood revenge in the Nordic world of legends : the three Viking brothers Hagbard , Helvin and Hamund ride out to avenge their slain father on King Sigvors. They fight with Sigvors' sons for a day, then King Sigvors commands peace. The peace is to be sealed at his court.
At the peace festival, it doesn't take long for the celebrants to get the mead in their heads. Hagbard, Hamund's eldest, and King Sigvors' daughter Signe have already looked each other deeply in the eye - and Hildegisl, the envious man, who himself has had an eye on Signe, begins to forge devilish schemes . With the help of the blind Bölvis, he sows distrust in the hearts of the young men. When Hagbard rides out to hunt wolves with a companion, the others clash. At the fjord, Helvin and Hamund are slain, and Hagbard, who - incited by the cunning Hildegisl - joins them, unceremoniously kills the brothers of the girl he loves. King Sigvors then declared him outlawed.
In women's clothes, Hagbard sneaks into the courtyard of his enemies to kidnap Signe. But a maid recognizes him, and the overwhelming force of Sigvor's servants wakes him out of Signe's arms. Hagbard dies on the gallows; Signe kills herself after starting a fire in her room shortly beforehand.
Reviews
The Protestant Film Observer draws the following conclusion: "Director Gabriel Axel poured the immortal 'Romeo and Juliet theme' into the poetic form of a picture ballad of bitter charm." The lexicon of the international film comes to the following assessment: "One old Icelandic legend following love tragedy à la Romeo and Juliet in an effortful but pseudo-poetic design; surprisingly bloody for the time it was created. "
Web links
- Hagbard and Signe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hagbard and Signe in the Universal Lexicon
- Film on dfi.dk in Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish)
- Film on danskefilm.dk in the Dansk Film Database (Danish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 526/1968, p. 545
- ↑ Hagbard and Signe. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .