Invincible

2001

Action / Drama / War

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 28% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 28% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 4702 4.7K

rabbi anti-semitism antisemitism strong man

Plot summary

A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.

Director

Werner Herzog Photo
Werner Herzog

Top cast

André Hennicke Photo
André Hennicke as Detective
Renate Krößner Photo
Renate Krößner as Mother Breitbart
Udo Kier Photo
Udo Kier as Count Helldorf
Peter Rühring Photo
Peter Rühring as (as Peter Ruehring)
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1.2 GB
1280*682
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
2 hr 13 min
Seeds 3
2.46 GB
1920*1024
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 13 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Theo Robertson 7 / 10

A Very Interesting Film Despite A Rather Serious Flaw

A film broadcast at 2am on channel 4 and starring Tim Roth ! I remember the last movie broadcast on channel 4 with Tim Roth in the credits which was THE WAR ZONE , one of the few movies I've regretted watching due to the depressing content and since INVINCIBLE centres around the birth of Nazism I wasn't expecting too many uplifting moments but I certainly recommend Werner Herzog's strange and interesting drama based on a true story !!!! SPOILERS !!!! In a Polish town the circus arrives and blacksmith's son Zishe Brietbart beats the strongman in a competition and impressed with Zishe's physical strength a theater agent signs him up where he performs at Berlin's Cabaret Of The Occult which is owned by Danish nobleman Hanussen . Since it's 1932 the Nazis are on the rise so Hanussen reinvents Zishe as " Siegfried " and shows his predominantly Nazi audience the physical strength of this Ayran . Hanussen shows this as proof of Ayran superiority while at the same time impressing his audience with his own occult powers . However despite his own naked opportunist agenda Hanussen has a secret of his own that he doesn't want known to his audience ...Some people may claim how ridiculously ironic it is having a Jew pretending to be an Ayran strongman in order to put forward a racist agenda but this I feel is the whole point of the story which one has a feeling has been turned into a fable rather than a story that has stuck to rigid facts . Certainly the most bitter irony about the rise of Nazism is that one of the architects of Nazi philosophy Alfred Rosenberg had a Jewish name while Hitler , Heydrich and Eichmann were of Jewish descent themselves ( Though technically not Jews - According to tradition if your mother wasn't a Jew neither are you ) so people with an irony deficency will have a problem understanding this beautiful and intelligent film And I don't apologise for thinking this is a beautiful and intelligent film , it might not have the reputation of Herzog's other films like the painfully overrated FITZCARRALDO but it's one I can certainly recommend for a mainstream audience . However there is one serious flaw that stands out and that is the casting of Jouko Ahola as Zishe . You do get the gut instinct that Herzog wanted to cast a certain Austrian body builder turned politician in the lead role and it's impossible to watch Ahola without being reminded of Big Arnie except Ahola is an even more wooden actor and his lack of thespian skills is made even more obvious when he's playing opposite Tim Roth is one of his most impressive roles which slightly damages the movie
Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 5 / 10

Half asleep

INVINCIBLE isn't a bad film, it's just that you expect more from Herzog as director. There are shades of his 1970s classics in the story of an oddball loner and strongman who ends up taking to the stage and becoming an Aryan hero despite his Jewish ancestry. This one starts off well but gradually loses steam as it goes on, and in the end I felt it dawdled quite a bit. An interesting story for sure and quite frightening at what it portrays, but Herzog feels half asleep here.
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