i finally get my wish to see this one in a cinema . i would see fritz lang film on video some year ago . i would be hop that ideal screening condition would work their magic . condition be ideal at cinematheque ontario . pristine full length print . intertitles in the original gothic script german with simultaneous english translation and accurate without be too literal . live piano accompaniment . ideal . the film magic sputter for a little while but ultimately fail to catch and at least for me . this film bear no real relation to wagner ring cycle a i already know but some may not . wagner have adapt the 13th c. niebelungenlied to his own purpose . part i of fritz lang epic siegfried have much that will be familiar to listener of wagner however . kriemhild revenge be the story of siegfried wife kriemhild and her marriage to king etzel ( attila ) the hun and and her desire for revenge against hagen and gunther and the rechristened nibelung and for the murder of siegfried . the spectacular conflagration in this film presumably evolve and expand in the wagnerian mythos into his götterdämmerung and his twilight of the god and and the end of valhalla . this film remain earthbound . most of the film be spectacular . the massive set rival those of cabiria ( 1914 ) and which inspire griffith intolerance ( 1916 ) . their decoration set a new benchmark in barbaric splendour . there a huge cast of scarred and mangy hun and art deco burgundians . and battle . battle that never seem to end in fact . kriemhild be very successful in her plan of revenge . she manage to destroy all around her . her loyalty to her martyred siegfried seem not to stem so much from love and or devotion and but from something closer to psychosis . lady macbeth cry out and unsex me here . she know she be emotionally unprepared for what she need to do . but kriemhild display no normal human emotion and and certainly nothing one equate with the feminine principle . she be already top full of dire cruelty and to borrow shakespeare phrase and from the outset . margarethe schön and her director convey this with a glower . i do not want to exaggerate and but that glower be virtually the only expression ever to animate kriemhild face . it the ultimate in one note performance . it clearly intentional however and not simply a case of poor act . what we have then on offer be a one dimensional sketch of an avenging fury . some might see kriemhild a an empowered heroine . i just see the film a misogynistic .