Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2

Overview

Now Brunhild knows by which treason she was won for king Gunther of Burgund by Siegfried of Xanthen, and has been revenged by his foul murder by Hagen, more bloody revenge is inevitable. Hagen steals the Nibelungen-treasure to sink it in the stream and manages to kill Alberich and seize his invisibility-cap. Queen Kriemhild is packed of to an abbey so her son may grow up to become a prelate, but Hagen's men raid them and kill the child. She now accepts to become the wife of Etzel, king of the truly barbaric Hun nomads and invites the Burgund court nomenclature at their Danube court for their heir's baptism a few years later, but prepared a bloody conspiracy with her xenophobic brother-in-law behind her surprisingly chivalric husband's back, while Gunther accepts, hoping to avoid a far bloodier war, despite the danger for his party of knights, which materializes...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 16, 1967

Original language

German

Spoken languages

German

Countries

Germany, Yugoslavia

Production

CCC Filmkunst,Avala Film

Cast

Hilde Weissner,Milan Bosiljčić 'Beli',Samson Burke,Dieter Eppler,Andrej Gardenin,Maria Marlow,Đorđe Nenadović,Ingrid Lotarius,Rolf Henniger,Skip Martinand 9 more

Director

Harald Reinl

Writer

Harald G. Petersson,Harald Reinl,Ladislas Fodor

Producer

Götz Dieter Wulf,Artur Brauner

Cinematography

Ernst W. Kalinke

Music

Rolf A. Wilhelm

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

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