Hagbard and Signe

1967 film

This article is about the 1967 film. For the Japanese urban legend also known as "Red Mantle", see Aka Manto.

Hagbard and Signe
Film poster
Directed by	Gabriel Axel
Written by	Gabriel Axel Saxo Grammaticus Frank Jæger
Produced by	Benedikt Árnason Gösta Bergqvist Just Betzer Johan Bonnier Bent Christensen
Starring	Oleg Vidov
Cinematography	Henning Bendtsen
Edited by	Lars Brydesen
Music by	Per Nørgård
Distributed by	ASA Film
Release date	16 January 1967 (1967年1月16日)
Running time	100 minutes
Countries	Denmark Sweden Iceland
Language	Danish

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 was shot in Iceland, with interiors built and filmed in Nacka, Sweden.^[3]

Cast

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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

Reception

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The film won a Technical Prize (Mention spéciale du grand prix technique) at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival.^[4] Roger Ebert gave the film a full 4 stars out of 4 score in his 1968 review.^[5]

References

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^ Roger Ebert (2009). Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007. Andrews McMeel Publishing. pp. 311–. ISBN 978-0-7407-9217-5.
^ 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.
^ Danish Films. Danish Film Institute. 1994. p. 18.
^ "DEN RODE KAPPE" (in French). Festival de Cannes. 18 May 2017. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
^ Ebert, Roger (30 October 1968). "Hagbard and Signe / The Red Mantle". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 31 December 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)