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- 2002
- PG-13
- Fine Line Features
- 2 h 13 m
- 2002
- PG-13
- Fine Line Features
- 2 h 13 m
Summary The true story of a simple man who is transported from his humble village roots to the giddy excesses of the 1930s Berlin and finds himself becoming the new Samson to protect the Jewish people. (Fine Line Features)
Directed By: Werner Herzog
Written By: Werner Herzog
- 2002
- PG-13
- Fine Line Features
- 2 h 13 m
- 2002
- PG-13
- Fine Line Features
- 2 h 13 m
Invincible
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Summary The true story of a simple man who is transported from his humble village roots to the giddy excesses of the 1930s Berlin and finds himself becoming the new Samson to protect the Jewish people. (Fine Line Features)
Directed By: Werner Herzog
Written By: Werner Herzog
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
55
53% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
37% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
11% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
55
53% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
37% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
11% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Watching Invincible was a singular experience for me, because it reminded me of the fundamental power that the cinema had for us when we were children. The film exercises the power that fable has for the believing.
Though Ahola's acting is unschooled, to say the least, Herzog shrewdly uses his blunt sincerity to counterpoint Roth's spectacularly icy performance.
Invincible works, simply but provocatively, as a parable about the oppressed and the oppressors, victimhood and fanaticism.
Invincible lacks Herzog's usual visual and intellectual panache, and is afflicted by weak English-language acting, which makes it more of a career curio than a major work.
A strange but oddly memorable film.
Steers clear of historical accuracy. Herzog is obviously looking for a moral to his fable, but the notion that a strong, unified showing among Germany and Eastern European Jews might have changed 20th-Century history is undermined by Ahola's inadequate performance.
The predominantly amateur cast is painful to watch, so stilted and unconvincing are the performances. Poor Roth has nobody to play against and flounders in trying to keep the ship upright. Herzog aims for a kind of operatic sweep that he fails to achieve.
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Production Company
Werner Herzog Filmproduktion,
Tatfilm,
Little Bird,
Jan Bart Productions,
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR),
Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR),
ARTE,
Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen,
Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA),
Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM),
FilmFour,
Fine Line Features,
Lietuvos Kinostudija
Release Date Sep 20, 2002
Duration 2 h 13 m
Rating PG-13
Awards
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
