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Werner HerzogScénario:
Werner HerzogPhotographie:
Peter ZeitlingerActeurs·trices:
Tim Roth, Jouko Ahola, Gustav Peter Wöhler, Udo Kier, Renate Krößner, Hark Bohm, André Hennicke, Peter Rühring, Joachim Paul Assböck, Werner Herzog (plus)Résumés(1)
Invincible est l'histoire véridique de Zishe Breitbart, vedette de cabaret du Berlin extravagant des années 30. Simple forgeron juif polonais, Zishe est un jour découvert par un agent berlinois qui décide de tirer partie de sa force herculéenne. Il le fait engager pour incarner les héros mythiques de l'Allemagne aryenne par l'étrange Hanussen, directeur de cabaret et roi de l'hypnose dont l'ambition est de fonder le Ministère de l'Occulte au sein du futur gouvernement d'Adolf Hitler. Alors que Berlin, comme l'ensemble de l'Allemagne, cède à un antisémitisme de plus en plus violent, Zishe refuse un soir de jouer les Siegfried et s'annonce comme le nouveau Samson. Hanté par de nombreux cauchemars et conscient des dangers qui guettent les juifs, il se prend peu à peu pour le nouveau sauveur de son peuple... (Diaphana Distribution)
(plus)Critiques (2)
Now I can see that I still know very little about movies about the stories of the WWI. But that allowed me to be all the more surprised by this movie. I’m familiar with Werner Herzog as a director and this entire time, I’ve been under the impression that he surrounds himself with some very interesting characters. Here, it’s the occultist Hannusen and his right hand Zishe who’s from some place in Poland. The actor is a Finn and I must say that his acting is worse than Arnold Schwarzenegger’s in some of his first movies. Luckily, his body does all the talking and so everything’s left to the two charismatic actors – Tim Roth and Udo Kier who are obviously enjoying this inter-war story as much as I was; perhaps a bit too much. But maybe I’d cut off some of the length, because by the end, I found myself counting down the minutes.
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Werner Herzog was inspired by the life stories of Zishe Breitbart and Erik Jan Hanussen. Although Breitbart died in 1925, Herzog's fiction takes place shortly before Hitler came to power, even operating with specific dates in 1932. The message is clear: Herzog had a desire to tell the legend of a modern Samson. The result is something like a clumsy Golem in Hanussen's spiritualistic show. Hanussen plays only a secondary role here, yet similar motifs are highlighted as in other Hanussen dramas (his origin, intrigues with Nazi leaders, strange relationship with women). So in the end, the only thing that can truly please the audience is the presence of Max Raabe.
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