Invincible - Invincible
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Invincible - Invincible |
| Original title | Invincible |
| Country of production |
Germany , United Kingdom , Ireland , United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 133 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Werner Herzog |
| script | Werner Herzog |
| production |
Gary Bart Werner Herzog |
| music |
Klaus Badelt Hans Zimmer |
| camera | Peter Zeitlinger |
| cut | Joe Bini |
| occupation | |
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Invincible - Invincible (original title: Invincible ) is a film drama by the director Werner Herzog with Tim Roth in the leading role from 2001. The film tells the story of a Jewish strongman and the clairvoyant Erik Jan Hanussen in Germany in 1932 and 1933. For Hans Zimmer and his former intern Klaus Badelt were responsible for the film music .
action
The strong Jewish blacksmith Zishe Breitbart was brought to Berlin from his Polish shtetl in 1932 . There he appears as a power acrobat in the variety theater "Palace of the Occult". This is run by the hypnotist Hanussen and mainly visited by the National Socialists . With increasing anti-Semitism , Breitbart raised more doubts as to whether his involvement in the vaudeville still made sense. In addition, the visit of his younger brother Benjamin increases the pride in his Jewish origins. Zishe takes advice from a rabbi who believes that he was chosen by God to warn his people about the Nazis . Breitbart solves his masquerade on stage and informs the audience that he is Jewish. He is celebrated as a hero by the local Jews. Hanussen is kidnapped and murdered by the storm department . Breitbart suspects that the Jewish population will soon fare badly and therefore travels back to Poland to warn the others about the impending Holocaust . But nobody believes him. To prove his strength, he drives nails into a thick board with his bare hand, with a very long rusty nail penetrating and injuring his knee. He ignores all advice to see a doctor. Only shortly before the gangrene knocks him out does he seek medical help. In the delirium he sees his brother Benjamin fly to safety and then dies, two days before Adolf Hitler came to power and evil takes its course.
production
Invincible - Invincible is a joint production of the film production companies Werner Herzog Filmproduktion , FilmFour , Fine Line Features and Tatfilm , which entered into a collaboration with Little Bird and Jan Bart Productions . The West German and Bayerischer Rundfunk as well as Arte were also involved in the film production. The drama was supported by the Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen and the Filmförderungsanstalt .
Influences
The film is based on the life of the Jewish strength athlete Siegmund Breitbart , who was portrayed in the film through the role of Zishe Breitbart ( Jouko Ahola ). Werner Herzog took up true incidents from Breitbart's life, but let the action take place seven years after his death.
Locations
The film was shot in Berlin , Bad Honnef (near Bonn), Christmas Island (Australia) , Latvia , Lithuania , Monterey (California) and in the Netherlands . The recordings in which Jacob Wein flew in the role of Benjamin were made at Black Island Studios, Alliance Road in Acton , London .
Technical details
The film was recorded with an aspect ratio of 16: 9 , the anamorphic ratio 1.85: 1, on 35 mm . The development of the film negative was carried out in Neuss at ProCine Filmtechnik GmbH. The sound recordings are in Dolby Digital .
Versions
The running time of the film is different. The film was shown in Argentina at the Mar del Plata film festival as well as in British and US cinemas with 133 minutes and premiered at the Venice International Film Festival with 128 minutes. Like the German DVD, the Spanish DVD is 125 minutes long.
publication
film Festival
In Italy, Invincible was shown for the first time on September 3, 2001 at the Venice International Film Festival . On November 18, 2001 the film was shown at the Lünen Cinema Festival . The following year the film was shown in Argentina at the Mar del Plata film festival and in Buenos Aires at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema . In Estonia, the drama was shown on December 2, 2002 at the Blind Nights Film Festival . On November 20, 2009, the film premiered in Greece at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
movie theater
The film drama opened in Hungary on December 2, 2001. The film was shown in German cinemas on January 17, 2002. Undefeated was shown in Ireland and Great Britain from March 29, 2002 before it was released in limited cinemas in the United States from September 20, 2002.
Television and sales
The film was released as a TV premiere in the Netherlands on October 3, 2002. The film could be bought in Germany from January 27, 2003.
criticism
“A good ten years had passed after 'Schrei aus Stein' before auteur filmmaker Werner Herzog returned in 2002 with a feature film on the big screen. The hoped-for bang unfortunately did not materialize. The drama 'Invincible', which was set in the Nazi era, shines with some of Herzog's virtues, but ultimately appears too dispassionate and reveals dramaturgical weaknesses. "
“Werner Herzog didn't do his long film break well: he lamely tells his German drama about a Polish strongman and the magician Hanussen in Berlin in the early thirties. Tim Roth alone shines in the role of the magician ... "
“A film embedded in folkloric elements and show values that argues less politically than tries to overwhelm emotionally. The desired cinema of feelings, however, does not want to appear in view of a juxtaposition of clichés and weaknesses in the presentation. "
A game
Invincible opened in four theaters in North America and grossed $ 14,293, or $ 3,573 per theater, on the opening weekend. In the course of the drama was shown in five other cinemas and grossed 81,954 US dollars. On August 24, 2010, the film received a 53% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Web links
- Invincible - Invincible in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Link collections to Invincible on filmz.de
- Backstory of producer Gary Bart's interest in story , by his sister Judy Bart Kancigor ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Invincible - Unbesiegbar (2001) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on empire-heilbronn.de
- ↑ Gary Bart: A Tribute To Siegmund Breitbart. sandowplus, archived from the original on October 24, 2005 ; accessed on September 26, 2012 (English).
- ↑ ZISHE BREITBART; Stronger Than Death? Letter to NY Times. The New York Times , October 13, 2002, accessed September 26, 2012 .
- ↑ Release info on imdb.com
- ↑ Invincible (Reviews - Filmstarts.de). Retrieved October 8, 2012 .
- ↑ Invincivle. Spielfilm.de, accessed on October 8, 2012 .
- ↑ Invincible - Invincible. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Invincible. RottenTomatoes.com, August 24, 2010, accessed October 8, 2012 .
