Uwe Beyer stars as Siegfried, a man who owns a magic sword. With sword in hand he sets out to defeat a huge dragon, which he does.
Then he bathes in the blood of the dead monster and becomes invincible. No part of his body may be peirced by a sword except one tiny spot on his back where a leaf landed when he was bathing in blood.
The dragon was guaring the treasure of Nibelungen. Siegfried finds a ring in the treasure that will awaken the beautiful Icelandic Queen Brunhilde (Karin Dor) from her eternal slumber.
He sails to Iceland and awakens her and she falls in love with him. However, Siegfried sails back to Burgundy and falls in love with the sister of the King. Her name is Kriemhild (Maria Marlow). He marries her and Brunhilde is forced to marry Konig Gunther (Rolf Henniger).
There was a lot of trickery and dishonesty between Gunther and Siegfried in getting Brunhilde to marry him, and this later comes at a terrible cost to both men.
This is a GREAT movie and easily one of the best of it's kind I have seen. There is a part 2 as well, and it will be on here very soon. Director Harald Reinal handles everything and gets some simply beautiful scenery in the film.
The rest of the cast includes Samson Burke, Terence Hill, Dieter Eppler and Skip Martin.
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