Hagbard and Signe

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 byGabriel Axel
Written byGabriel Axel
Saxo Grammaticus
Frank Jæger
Produced byBenedikt Árnason
Gösta Bergqvist
Just Betzer
Johan Bonnier
Bent Christensen
StarringOleg Vidov
CinematographyHenning Bendtsen
Edited byLars Brydesen
Music byPer Nørgård
Distributed byASA Film
Release date
  • 16 January 1967 (1967-01-16)
Running time
100 minutes
CountriesDenmark
Sweden
Iceland
LanguagesDanish
Swedish
Icelandic

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 won a Technical Prize (Mention spéciale du grand prix technique) at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival.[3] [4]

  1. ^ Roger Ebert (2009). Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007. Andrews McMeel Publishing. pp. 311–. ISBN 978-0-7407-9217-5.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "DEN RODE KAPPE" (in French). Festival de Cannes. 18 May 2017. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  4. ^ Danish Films. Danish Film Institute. 1994. p. 18.