The Reel Middle Ages T HE R EEL M I DDLE A GES American, Western and Eastern E uropean, Middle Eastern and Asian Films About Medieval Europe by KEVIN J. HARTY McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Jefferson, North Carolina, and London Frontispiece: Margarete Schön as the vengeful Kriemhild in Fritz Lang’s 1924 film Die Nibelungen (Still courtesy of the British Film Institute) British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication data are available Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Harty, Kevin J. The reel Middle Ages : American, western and eastern European, Middle Eastern, and Asian films about medieval Europe / by Kevin J. Harty. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7864-0541-4 (library binding : 50# alkaline paper) (£») 1. Middle Ages in motion pictures. 2. Motion pictures — Catalogs. I. Title. PN1995.9.M52H37 1999 791.43'658 —dc21 98-29385 CIP ©1999 Kevin J. Harty. All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Manufactured in the United States of America McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Box 611, Jefferson, North Carolina 28640 For Rick Fisher and Cornelius Kelly, who put me up, and the staff of the British Film Institute, who put up with me, while I was researching this book. C ontents Preface 1 Introduction 3 The Films 11 Bibliography 289 Index 291 VII