Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King

Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King is a 2004 German television film directed by Uli Edel and starring Kristanna Loken, Benno Fürmann, Alicia Witt and Max von Sydow. The film is based on the Norse mythology story Völsungasaga and the German epic poem Nibelungenlied, which tells the mythological story of Siegfried the Dragon-Slayer. Richard Wagner's music dramas Siegfried and Götterdämmerung are based on the same material. Dark Kingdom:The Dragon King was written by the husband and wife team of Diane Duane and Peter Morwood and is a Tandem Communications production. It was filmed entirely in South Africa.