The Invincibles (1994)
(Die Sieger)
Country: GER
Technical: col/1.66:1 130/146m
Director: Dominik Graf
Cast: Herbert Knaup, Katja Flint, Hannes Jaenicke, Thomas Schücke
Synopsis:
Four years after bludgeoning his premature child to death in her incubation unit, a disturbed special forces officer returns to haunt his former colleague, acting as informant for covert ministerial operations, and suborning another member of the team to take part in a perilous kidnapping plot.
Review:
Densely scripted and labyrinthinely plotted thriller-drama, in which the hapless hero, caught between the devil of his certain knowledge and the deep blue sea of departmental corruption, chooses to embark on a torrid affair with the wife of the man he is assigned to protect. The director's cut is rather too long, and it is still hard to determine the extent to which the money-laundering subplot is integral or merely a distraction, but the cinematography is a fine example of analogue technique (colour, depth of field, skin tones), and the collegiate/rowdy atmosphere of a special forces team is well caught. Some tense, dynamic action sequences, too.
(Die Sieger)
Country: GER
Technical: col/1.66:1 130/146m
Director: Dominik Graf
Cast: Herbert Knaup, Katja Flint, Hannes Jaenicke, Thomas Schücke
Synopsis:
Four years after bludgeoning his premature child to death in her incubation unit, a disturbed special forces officer returns to haunt his former colleague, acting as informant for covert ministerial operations, and suborning another member of the team to take part in a perilous kidnapping plot.
Review:
Densely scripted and labyrinthinely plotted thriller-drama, in which the hapless hero, caught between the devil of his certain knowledge and the deep blue sea of departmental corruption, chooses to embark on a torrid affair with the wife of the man he is assigned to protect. The director's cut is rather too long, and it is still hard to determine the extent to which the money-laundering subplot is integral or merely a distraction, but the cinematography is a fine example of analogue technique (colour, depth of field, skin tones), and the collegiate/rowdy atmosphere of a special forces team is well caught. Some tense, dynamic action sequences, too.
(Die Sieger)
Country: GER
Technical: col/1.66:1 130/146m
Director: Dominik Graf
Cast: Herbert Knaup, Katja Flint, Hannes Jaenicke, Thomas Schücke
Synopsis:
Four years after bludgeoning his premature child to death in her incubation unit, a disturbed special forces officer returns to haunt his former colleague, acting as informant for covert ministerial operations, and suborning another member of the team to take part in a perilous kidnapping plot.
Review:
Densely scripted and labyrinthinely plotted thriller-drama, in which the hapless hero, caught between the devil of his certain knowledge and the deep blue sea of departmental corruption, chooses to embark on a torrid affair with the wife of the man he is assigned to protect. The director's cut is rather too long, and it is still hard to determine the extent to which the money-laundering subplot is integral or merely a distraction, but the cinematography is a fine example of analogue technique (colour, depth of field, skin tones), and the collegiate/rowdy atmosphere of a special forces team is well caught. Some tense, dynamic action sequences, too.