Der Unbesiegbare
The Invicible

Description

"HURRY CANE, DR. POPOV and DAISY BIT, a type of comic-book Marilyn Monroe, fly to Mars in order to protect the Earth from evil alien bad guy ARGON. The world below can follow the trip as an endless television series. A certain MR. RATH hires a professional killer to do away with the media hero HURRY CANE, in order to put an end to this television nightmare." (Source, website, C3)

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This video mixes 35mm and 1". (Source: Peter Weibel, Beyond Art: A Third Culture. A Comparative Study in Cultures Art and Science in 20th Century Austria and Hungary, Vienna, Springer-Verlag, 2005.)

First broadcast at the Munich Film Festival on June 27, 1985 and on West German television on July 25, 1985. (Source, website, IMDb)

"Hámos' fascination with the cultural mythology of the hero culminates in this witty, elaborately crafted drama, which was produced for European television. Hámos intercuts two parallel narratives to tell his story: a cartoonish, campy science fiction adventure, shot on video; and an elegant, cinematic political thriller, shot on film. Hámos blends the two genres into a tragicomic tale of the role of heroes, their immortality, and the catharsis of a heroic death. The science fiction melodrama features a comic book superhero, Hurry Cane, who saves the earth from the evil Emperor Argon; in the film noir, hired killers have a contract out on the hero Cane. Hámos' analysis of the myth of the hero is articulated in his collusion of the two stylized dramas and their contrasting representational modes Among the international cast members are the German actors Udo Kier and Lotti Huber.

Camera: Wolfgang Knigge. Script: Astrid Heibach, Yuri Kozma, Ed Cantu, Gusztav Hamos. Music: Sibelius- Orchester e.V Berlin." (Source, website, eai)

This video was also produced by Salinas Filmproduktion GmbH. (Source, website, C3)

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Presentation place

- 3ème édition du festival du film de Munich, Munich, 27 juin 1985.

Publications and Periodicals which reference the work

- Peter Weibel, Beyond Art: A Third Culture. A Comparative Study in Cultures Art and Science in 20th Century Austria and Hungary, Springer-Verlag, Wien, 2005.

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