Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2
Die Nibelungen, Teil 2: Kriemhilds Rache
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...
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Barbara Bold
as Hildegunt
Dieter Eppler
as Rüdiger von Bechlarn
Samson Burke
as Blo-Edin
Maria Marlow
as Kriemhild
Karin Dor
as Brunhild
Hans von Borsody
as Volker von Alzey
Skip Martin
as Alberich
Herbert Lom
as Etzel
Siegfried Wischnewski
as Hagen
Fred Williams
as Gernot
Christian Rode
as Dietrich von Bern
Hilde Weissner
as Königin Ute
Terence Hill
as Giselher
