Siegfried and the legendary love life of the Nibelungs
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Siegfried and the legendary love life of the Nibelungs |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Adrian Hoven |
| script |
Fred Denger Brigitte Parnitzke |
| production | Ingo Hermes |
| music | Daniele Patucchi |
| camera | Johannes Staudinger |
| cut | Inge Hoffmann |
| occupation | |
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Siegfried and the legendary love life of the Nibelungs is a comedic sex and adventure film from 1970 by Adrian Hoven with Raimund Harmstorf in the title role.
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With the exception of the final scene, the film sticks to the well-known Nibelungen saga and garnishes the story with numerous nude and sex scenes.
The young Siegfried, who has gained new fame as a dragon slayer, returns to medieval Worms . The powerful hero, blessed with enormous self-confidence and notorious long-term happiness, becomes a swarm of young maids in the city and at the court of King Gunther. He decides that the "best" is just good enough for his sister Kriemhild and promises Siegfried to give him the blonde princess as his wife. But before that, Siegfried explores the female world on site, from head to toe, in the hay and in the lottery bed. As a result of a sprawling sex orgy, Siegfried deflowered almost the entire female servants as well as a maiden disguised as a page.
Then Gunther goes to Iceland with Siegfried to use Siegfried's magic hat to win the favor of the legendary Queen Brunhild. Gunther fails the sexual test the first night and is supposed to die. Thereupon Siegfried puts on the magic cap with the lights off and makes the queen happy, while she thinks Gunther is in and of herself and is impressed above all else. So outwitted, Brunhild agrees to become Gunther's wife, but is furious when she learns of the shameful sex deception of the two men through Kriemhild's hints. The tensions at court end with Gunther's sinister confidante Hagen von Tronje being commissioned to kill Siegfried. But Kriemhild, who jumps on Hagen from behind, saves Siegfried from his lance.
Production notes
Siegfried and the legendary love life of the Nibelungs was created in autumn 1970 and premiered on April 8, 1971. Due to the numerous sex scenes, the strip was only released for viewers aged 18 and over.
For the lead actor Harmstorf, who in the interpretation of the "pot-bred title hero" Siegfried builds entirely on his physicality, the flick was his first leading role in the cinema. Immediately afterwards, he began filming the Jack London four-part television series Der Seewolf , with which Harmstorf was to become famous overnight as the title character squeezing potatoes in the run-up to Christmas 1971.
Hermes-Synchron and atlas Film und TV-Produktion GmbH took over the production . Director Hoven was also the line producer. The buildings are by Max Mellin .
Reviews
The lexicon of international films says: "Motifs from the Nibelungen saga serve as a hook for a series of lousy sex scenes."
The film's large personal lexicon called Hovens film a "stupid, flat sex plot"
“Motifs from the Nibelungen saga serve as a hook for a string of textile-free sex scenes: In the atmosphere of the old days and Nordic mysticism, the hero Siegfried (Raimund Harmstorf) repeatedly encounters charming beauties. He lets his passion run wild. With his charm, his masculinity and his enormous "sword" he masters every danger. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for Siegfried and the legendary love life of the Nibelungs . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2008 (PDF; test number: 43 321 DVD).
- ↑ a b Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of the film . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 540.
- ^ Siegfried and the legendary love life of the Nibelungs. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .