Rent Freaks vs. the Reich (2021)
3.6 of 5 from 53 ratings
2h 15min
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- Synopsis:
Looking to flee the Nazi menace for the shores of America are four super-powered circus performers: there's beautiful, young, electrically-charged Matilde (Aurora Giovinazzo), Cencio (Pietro Castellitto), an albino with the ability to control insects, Mario (Giancarlo Martini), a dwarf graced with magnetic powers, and Fulvio (Claudio Santamaria), a strongman covered from head to toe with hair. On their heels is the psychotic Franz (Franz Rogowski), an ether-addicted, six-fingered Nazi who runs the nearby circus and believes that the supernaturally gifted quartet will help him turn the tide of the war, delivering the ultimate victory for Hitler and the Reich. Will the "freaks" be able to escape the grasp of the brutal Nazis or will their incredible powers be harnessed in a way that could change both their destinies and the entire course of history forever? - Actors:
- Claudio Santamaria, Aurora Giovinazzo, Pietro Castellitto, Giancarlo Martini, Giorgio Tirabassi, Max Mazzotta, Franz Rogowski, Francesca Anna Bellucci, Michelangelo Dalisi, Olivier Bony, Emilio De Marchi, Eric Godon, Sebastian Hülk, Anna Tenta, Christoph Hülsen, Astrid Meloni, Thomas Steinküler, Matteo Simone, Robin Mugnaini, Riccardo Angelini
- Directors:
- Gabriele Mainetti
- Producers:
- Gabriele Mainetti, Andrea Occhipinti
- Voiced By:
- Nikolai Selikovsky
- Writers:
- Nicola Guaglianone, Gabriele Mainetti
- Aka:
- Freaks Out
- Studio:
- Dazzler
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Countries:
- Italy
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 26/02/2024
- Run Time:
- 141 minutes
- Languages:
- Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Italian LPCM Stereo
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (1) of Freaks vs. the Reich
Great Fun, Comic Book Italian Mash-Up about a Circus in Rome in 1943 Nazi-filled Action Fantasy - Freaks vs. the Reich review by PV
The Guardian gave this 1 star and called it "a deluded blend of magical realism, gratuitous violence and sentimentality"', while the BFI stated: "a ludicrous circus fantasy filled with lavishly orchestrated carnage". Well considering the sort of dire tedious tickbox films these rags adore, I thought that was recommendation enough so rented it! If the Guardian hates it, the film is surely entertaining and worth a watch! And I was not wrong.
Yes, it is overlong and a tad meandering; BUT it has a budget to enable the special effects of superpowers to look decent ( usually disliked such scifi magic realism, but I see the writer of this has only 1 other movie credit, for an Italian film about a criminal with superpowers! So s/he obviously has a thing...)
HOORAH that it is not dubbed; instead it has automatic English subtitles so bravo for that! I hate dubbed foreign films.
The truly great actor Franz Rogowski stars - and I would watch a film about paint drying with him in it. The plot is basically 4 super-powered misfits have to evade the six-fingered leader of a Nazi Berlin circus (Franz Rogowski) . And it is BIG, bawdy (surprisingly so for a 15 cert) and an action-fantasy. which could have started life as a graphic novel. I hate Marvel films, but this is fun at least.
Some vague references to The Wizard of Oz are here too in what is a quest story really. They even mention Dorothy!
Maybe watch with BLOODSTORM (2012, and also called Nazis at the Centre of the Earth, so see Adolf Hitler ride a T-Rex in Antarctica. Errrr).
The difference is that this movie has a big budget, some famous actors (I think Claudio Santamaria is a big veteran Italian actor) and very VERy Italian, as it is OTT and has that visual comedy which in the UK has vanished mostly, but which survives in many Italian and other fori
Nice soundtrack too which includes CREEP by Radiohead and I think NOVEMBER RAIN by Guns N Roses too, oh and a Nazi Rubik's Cube and a smartphone tone in 1943 - but it has a timeslip theme too via the ringleader Nazi...
Just suspend belief, do not think too hard, hide your copy of The Guardian and go along for the ride! Great fun. 4 stars.
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