Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King is a 2006 English-language Action Adventure motion picture written by Diane Duane, Peter Morwood and Uli Edel. The movie is directed by Uli Edel and produced by Rola Bauer, Andreas Schmid and Konstantin Thoeren under the banner of Tandem Productions in collaboration with VIP Medienfonds 2 and VIP Medienfonds 3. The young blacksmith Siegfried, who, not knowing that he is heir to a conquered kingdom, becomes popular with the Burgunds by slaying their bane, the dragon Fafnir. When the reward ms to be a huge treasure, Siegfried ignores the curse that lies on the hoard - which now ms to endanger his love to beautiful Norse warrior queen Brunhild. Written by Tandem Communications. Dark kingdom: the dragon king features Benno F Rmann, Alicia Witt, Kristanna Loken, Max Von Sydow, Benno Fürmann, Julian Sands and Grant Swanby. The music was composed by Ilan Eshkeri. Cinematography was done by Elemer Ragalyi and editing by Roberto Silvi. The motion picture has a running time of 222-162 minutes. It was released on 30th December 2004 in German and English languages. Distribution rights for the movie were acquired by Tandem Communications.