Hagbard and Signe, The Red Mantle, Den Rode Kappe, 1967

CinemaScope version with Danish audio WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Hagbard and Signe / The Red Mantle

By Roger Ebert / October 30, 1968

Cast & Credits
Signe: Gitte Hænning
Hagbard: Oleg Vidov
King Sigvor: Gunnar Björnstrand
His Wife: Eva Dahlbeck
Bengrerd: Lisbeth Movin
Bilvis: Johannes Meyer
Hake: Henning Palmer

Prentoulis films presents an ASA Film Movie Art Europe co-production, directed by Gabriel Axel from a screenplay by himself and dialog by Frank Jaeger. Produced by Bent Christensen and Johan Bonnier. Photographer in color by Henning Bendtsen.

"Hagbard and Signe" is a beautiful, lean, spare film, which reaches back into the legends of the past to find its strength. I think it must be reckoned the sleeper of the year; I had not heard of it previously, either under the present title or as "The Red Mantle" (its title as the Danish entry at Cannes).

Director Gabriel Axel set his story in the year 1100 and shot entirely on location in Iceland to find the virgin landscapes of the middle ages. His experiment was a splendid success: From scenes of conflict, the camera often looks up to unbroken panoramas of mountains, ice, mist and tough green vegetation.

The plot has the simplicity of legend, as if it had been retold for many years until only the most important contours remained. The film involves three brothers who come to avenge their father's death.

They fight the king's three sons with sword and spear, but the match is a standoff, and at day's end the king declares a truce. The brothers spend the night at his castle. One of them, Hagbard, falls in love with the king's daughter, Signe, and she with him.


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