Hagbard and Signe

1967 film

  • 16 January 1967 (1967-01-16)
Running time
100 minutesCountriesDenmark
Sweden
IcelandLanguagesDanish
Swedish
Icelandic

Hagbard and Signe or The Red Mantle[1] (Danish: Den røde kappe, Swedish: Den röda kappan, Icelandic: Rauða skikkjan) is a 1967 internationally co-produced drama film based on the story of Hagbard and Signy from the twelfth-century work Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus,[2] directed by Gabriel Axel and starring Gitte Hænning. The film won a Technical Prize (Mention spéciale du grand prix technique) at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival.[3] [4]

Cast

  • Oleg Vidov as Hagbard
  • Gitte Hænning as Signe
  • Eva Dahlbeck as The Queen
  • Birgitte Federspiel as King Hamund's widow
  • Lisbeth Movin as Bengerd
  • Johannes Meyer as Bilvis
  • Håkan Jahnberg as Bolvis
  • Manfred Reddemann as Hildegisl
  • Henning Palner as Hake
  • Gisli Alfredsson as Sigvald
  • Folmer Rubæk as Helvin
  • Borgar Garðarsson as Alf (as Borgar Gardarsson)
  • Jörgen Lantz as King Hammond (as Jørgen Lantz)
  • Frederik Tharaldsen as Alger
  • Sisse Reingaard as Rigmor
  • Gunnar Björnstrand as King Sigvor
  • Niels Hinrichsen
  • Else Højgaard
  • Jakob Nielsen
  • Poul Reichhardt

See also

References

  1. ^ Roger Ebert (2009). Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007. Andrews McMeel Publishing. pp. 311–. ISBN 978-0-7407-9217-5.
  2. ^ Kevin J. Harty (2011). The Vikings on Film: Essays on Depictions of the Nordic Middle Ages. McFarland. pp. 205–. ISBN 978-0-7864-8638-0.
  3. ^ "DEN RODE KAPPE" (in French). Festival de Cannes. 18 May 2017. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  4. ^ Danish Films. Danish Film Institute. 1994. p. 18.

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