Silent Era : Home Video : Die Nibelungen (1924) Review

Silent Era Home Page > Home Video > Die Nibelungen

SILENT ERA FILMS ON HOME VIDEO
Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
Copyright © 1999-2009 by Carl Bennett.
All Rights Reserved.

Die Nibelungen
(1924)

2002 Kino International edition

Die Nibelungen (1924), black & white, 291 minutes, not rated.

Kino International, K265, UPC 7-38329-02652-3.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, two single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $39.95.
DVD release date: 10 December 2002.
Country of origin: USA

This quality edition from Kino features both films that constitute the Die Nibelungen cycle, Siegfried (1924) and Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924), in restored versions with newly-translated English language intertitles. The source print was assembled by F.W. Murnau Stiftung from materials held by the Munich Film Museum, Gosfilmofond film archive, the National Film and Television Archive of the British Film Institute, and the Austrian Film Archives.

This disc, with its improved image quality and restored length, should be the best edition of Die Nibelungen available on home video.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.

Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

This Region 1 NTSC DVD is also available directly from Kino International.

Other silent era FRITZ LANG films available on home video.

Other GERMAN silent era films available on home video.

Silent Era Home Page > Home Video > Die Nibelungen || Top of Page