Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King
Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King is a 2004 German television film directed by Uli Edel and starring Benno Fürmann, Alicia Witt, Kristanna Loken and Max von Sydow. The film is based on the Norse mythology story Völsungasaga and the German epic poem Nibelungenlied, which tells the mythological story of Siegfried the Dragon-Slayer. Richard Wagner's music dramas Siegfried and Götterdämmerung are based on the same material. Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King was written by the husband and wife team of Diane Duane and Peter Morwood and is a Tandem Communications production. It was filmed entirely in South Africa.
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Benjamin "Benno" Fürmann is a German film and television actor. He is known for his lead role in the 2008 film The North Face, where he plays Toni Kurz based on the 1936 Eiger climbing disaster in Switzerland, the lead actor in Christian Petzold's Jerichow, Agnieszka Holland's In Darkness, and as the voice actor for Puss in Boots of the Shrek franchise in the German Dub.
Fürmann in 2017