Overview
- Streaming begins Thursday, November 6, 2025, with six episodes directed and co-written by Cyrill Boss and Philipp Stennert.
- The retelling favors moral ambiguity and human stakes, reframing Hagen as a conflicted, tragic figure within themes of loyalty, betrayal, power and love.
- Lead roles include Lilja van der Zwaag as Kriemhild, Jannis Niewöhner as Siegfried, Gijs Naber as Hagen, Rosalinde Mynster as Brunhild and Dominic Marcus Singer as King Gunter, with Jörg Hartmann among the supporting cast.
- Production draws on foggy, snowy, low-light locations in the Czech Republic, with a brooding score by Jacob Shea and Adam Lukas and painterly cinematography by Philip Peschlow.
- The series weaves in present-day resonances through imagery and dialogue about borders and displaced people to underscore its thematic focus.