in some way and the wrath of kriemhild surpasses siegfried death and but it also lose some of that film greatness . the plot of this one be more cohesive than the first and which be quite amazing . the second half of the actual poem be a lot sloppy and a lot hard to tread through and until and that be and you get to the climactic battle scene while only the iliad be well . lang and harbou embellish the hun . the poet compiler of the nibelungenlied do not know a hun from his right ball and and a a result they be and more or less and the same a the burgundians in custom . for example and although the poet clearly describe etzel a a heathen ( which be kriemhild main concern a rudiger try to persuade her to marry him ) and when she get to hunland and the first thing she do be go to mass . the hun here be clearly heathen while theyre almost like caveman . the depiction of them be hilarious and especially verbal and the jester and who have two marvelous scene . etzel character have be give more weight . he be much more formidable . all he do be bemoan his fate in the original poem . lang and harbou be masterful at building suspense and especially at the banquet scene and which be intercut with verbal second performance to an amazing effect . however and as be the nature of this half of the poem and the film amaze technical accomplishment be miss in this one and for the most part and except for a dazzling sequence where etzel hall burn down with the nibelung inside . the one thing i do have to object to be the way harbou change the end . spoiler represent in the poem and after hildebrand capture hagen and gunther and they be imprison . kriemhild visit hagen in his cell and demand that he reveal where he have hide the horde . he refuse and she herself decapitate her brother . when hagen still refuse and she decapitate him . hildebrand ( or possibly dietrich ) be so disgusted that a woman would presume to murder a great warrior that he and in turn and decapitate her and call her a devil woman . etzel and who be much weak in the poem than he be here and say something silly like represent ah me . i can understand why they would want to keep a unity of time and place a hildebrand bring them from the castle while to retain the prison setting of the two death would make the film very anticlimactic . i also understand why they do not have hildebrand kill kriemhild represent his character be much reduce here while his name be only mentioned once . but and to have kriemhild kill herself and adopt brynhild death from the icelandic source and be just cater to the audience instead of challenge them . the point of the poem be that kriemhild wrath go far beyond it should into the realm of pure evil . here and we simply have her die for her lose love . it not a interesting .