Overview
- All six episodes are now available to stream on RTL+ following the premiere on November 6.
- Directors Cyrill Boss and Philipp Stennert co-wrote the series for Constantin Film with RTL+, based on Hohlbein’s Hagen von Tronje.
- The production emphasizes a wintry, low-light aesthetic shot partly in the Czech Republic with a somber score by Jacob Shea and Adam Lukas.
- Gijs Naber’s Hagen is framed as a tragic, duty-bound figure opposite Jannis Niewöhner’s volatile Siegfried, with Lilja van der Zwaag, Rosalinde Mynster, Dominic Marcus Singer and Jörg Hartmann in key roles.
- The narrative includes explicit references to refugees and borders, and Boss dismisses concerns about right-wing appropriation of the myth.