adonis98-743-186503 The young blacksmith Siegfried, who, not knowing that he is heir to a conquered kingdom, becomes popular with the Burgunds by slaying their bane, the dragon Fafnir. When the reward seems to be a huge treasure, Siegfried ignores the curse that lies on the hoard - which now seems to endanger his love to beautiful Norse warrior queen Brunhild. Ring of the Nibelungs is starring Kristanna Loken (Terminator 3) and Benno Fürmann (Speed Racer) and i feel like it's an underrated movie about dragons and swords and other stuff of that time it's not Lord of the Rings in case you want to know and it doesn't have a lot of action but it's entertaining because you have interesting characters, good action and even some alright cgi because this is a TV Movie and not a film that came out on theaters and if you watch it you will not be disappointed.

derin_halo best movie ever the movie really touched me. Never saw such awesome and beautiful movie especially about brunhilde that see had to watch her love marrying some other girl i liked there was a lot of science fiction in the movie a lot of action a big story and it was a beautiful love movie watch out here comes a spoiler!!!!!!!!!but i hated so much that siegfried had to die and siegfried couldn't remember brunhilde it broke my heart that they couldn't be together and alive so the ending actually f*cked up the movie for me i would of been so happy if that bad guy missed the spear and siegfried remembered he loves brunhilde:) sorry for the bad language

ntsci I tuned into this film about half was through and kept thinking, man this seems rather familiar... Then realize egad they've filmed the Rings -- the Goddammring cycle (Götterdämmerung or the Twilight of the gods. WOW. Its not great (heck its a TV movie) but they do a good job of depicting a great epic... boiling 20 + hours of opera or countless Nordic saga down into a 2 or 3 hour TV movie -- pretty impressive. I've recently seen the beginning and it confirmed my opinion. A decent attempt to bring an ancient legend to the screen. Its much truer to the original than say the recent movie version of Tristram und Isolda.There are many different versions of each of these Sagas. Wagner picked out those elements that form a coherent narrative about the end of the ancient Norse world -- the twilight of the gods. The most fascinating aspect of the original story from these various Norse sagas (The Twilight of the gods) is that one sees a pagan (pre-christian) population who is aware of the impending death of their religion and culture (through conversion to Christianity) and this is tied in with misbehaviour of their own gods themselves. It is a legend of the end of their pagan world. Volton's selfish quest to regain the ring of power for himself through his grandson (Seigfried) ultimately brings about the end of the ancient culture.My only real complaint is that they don't follow the cycle of the ring... which started out in the river guarded by the Rhine maidens, was stolen by Alberich, then stolen by the gods (Voton), reluctantly given to the Frost giants (Falsalt and Fafnir) for building Valhalla, seized by his brother Fafnir (who killed his brother) who turned himself into a dragon to protect his treasure, taken almost accidentally by Seigfried (who fought the dragon to learn about fear because he was too stupid to know what fear was -- hes a bit of a moron in the opera), Hagan then kills Seigfried and seizes the ring, then the river rises and it is at last reclaimed by the Rhinemaidens. Without the cycle, some of the story elements don't make sense. The most powerful parts of the opera cycle is (1) Alberich's vow to swear off love in order to seize the gold, and (2) his curse when the gold (in particular the ring) is taken away. The story needs his vow to swear off love, to make sense of his curse. I didn't expect it to depict the entire cycle (20 hours is a bit much for a movie), but instead of using the old ghosts to give the back story, they could have use the mermaids (as is done in Wagners Götterdämmerung). I don't understand why they made the beautifully seductive Rhinemaidens into old male ghosts and depicted the Nibelung as the rightful guardians of the cursed gold (rather than thieves). And anyway, why is the gold cursed? Other than that I found it very entertaining. Two thumbs up!

FromBookstoFilm Since I was a child and being partially of Northern European descent p and being a descendant of a few ancestors who were into mythology and lite occult practices (astrology,numerology,fortune telling,Druidism-Wiccan)I have always loved almost anything mythological. I really appreciated this version of the Nibelungied. This combines the mythological treatments of both the Scandinavian and Germanic versions of the myth. The story is incomplete.Kriemhilde (aka Chriemhild)is somewhat based on the historical Princess Ildico who was forced to marry Attila the Hun who in reality hated Attila for killing her family and may have poisoned him on the dreaded wedding night.In the mythological version she marries Etzel, King of the Huns (based on Attila the Hun)so she could have vengeance against her brothers and other relatives for the murder of her beloved husband Siegfried (aka Sigurd). In this version of the story Brunhilde (aka Brynhild) takes vengeance on Hagen and his men alone. What this version did get right was the love potion Kriemhilde used on Siegfried to love her and forget about his one true love Brunhilde (Brynhild)The Queen (In some of the myths she is no Queen but a Valkyrie a Norse equivalent to a Greco-Roman Amazon and the daughter of the God Wotan (Odin) and the Earth Goddess Erda (Nertha).The second thing correct is the shapeshifting of Siegfied to appear as Gunther (Gunter).The suicide of Brunhilde on Siegfried's death. I recommend this miniseries for anyone who is interested in Germano-Norse mythology and classical literature.