Thor - the invincible barbarian

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Movie
German title Thor - the invincible barbarian
Original title Thor il conquistatore
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1983
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Tonino Ricci
(as Anthony Richmond )
script Tito Carpi
production Roberto Poggi
Marcello Romeo
music Francesco De Masi
camera Giovanni Bergamini
cut Vincenzo Tomassi
occupation

Thor is an Italian barbarian film from 1983 .

action

In mythical prehistory , Thor was born at a place of worship . Immediately after his birth, the enemy chief Gnut appears with his warriors and kills Thor's parents. The shaman Etna saves Thor; He makes the father's sword disappear by magic , so that it does not fall into Gnut's hands .

Since Etna knows through visionary abilities that Thor is destined to one day become the greatest ruler of the world, he raises him and gives him all the necessary knowledge. When the time comes, he opens Thor his multi-part task: he must bring the golden seed to the people, find his father's sword again and then avenge his death in order to then become a great ruler as prophesied .

Thor begins his work by first defeating a group of wandering cannibals , freeing the woman they have captured and then learning about sexuality on her under Etna's guidance . Two surviving cannibals kill this woman in a subsequent attack, so that nothing can hold Thor and he goes to fulfill his destiny. Etna accompanies him in the form of an owl and only occasionally takes on human form.

Thor overcomes a bridge guard provided with magic powers, defeats three Amazons , of whom he lets one named Ino live and rapes her , only to take her with him as a prisoner. A little later he himself becomes a prisoner of a tribe that intends to sacrifice him. At a favorable moment he is freed by Ino and steals the golden seeds , which are grains of grain .

On the way, Thor overcomes unfriendly enemies at a ford and then reaches a village whose inhabitants recognize him as the prophesied ruler. Thor uses the grain he brought with him to start farming and ruled for some time, until Gnut and his warriors appear again. They raid the village, burn Thor's eyes and let him wander blindly through the world while his wife Ino Gnut is a prisoner.

The deity The-Shan takes Thor and gives him back his eyesight . Thereupon the shaman Etna also appears again, brings Thor a horse and instructs him to find his father's sword and then to destroy Gnut. Thor succeeds in all of this, and he can take his place as ruler again.

criticism

“The poor wretches who work here would not even be allowed to operate the curtain in the amateur play group at St. Kützelmütz-Gymnasium in Hünxe. - To get used to. "

- Dictionary of fantasy films

"The revived mythological film here in a by-product of absolute nothingness," said Segnocinema .

meaning

Among the numerous B-films that were produced especially in Italy in the wake of Conan the Barbarian , Thor - The Invincible Barbarian has a special position. In the opinion of many critics, it is the worst contribution to the genre of the barbarian film . The cheapness of the production is already evident from the fact that backdrops were almost completely dispensed with, apart from three unstable straw huts, which symbolize rather than depict a village.

Apart from a few scenes in a cave and on the beach , almost all of the action takes place in the forest and on meadows. The indifference and negligence with which the film was produced is reflected in numerous other details. Thor's father was killed with an arrow shot through the neck . However, when Thor later finds his father's skull, the arrow is stuck in the eye socket. When Etna presented the horse to Thor, he did so with the words “One day people will call it a horse” - despite the fact that he himself has just called it “horse”. Apparently there was hardly any budget for extras either, since Thor's people never comprised more than two dozen subjects in the last part of the film ; nevertheless he is called the greatest ruler of the earth for no apparent reason .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ronald M. Hahn , Volker Jansen, Norbert Stresau : Lexicon of Fantasy Films. 650 films from 1900 to 1986 . Heyne, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-02273-4 , p. 510.
  2. ↑ quoted from comingsoon