The Invisible Man (1984 film)

**Cinematography** | Valery Shuvalov

The Invisible Man (Человек-невидимка *Chelovek-nevidimka* lit. 'The Invisible Man') is a Russian 1984 Horror film directed by Aleksandr Zakharov.

## Plot

Griffin, a talented young researcher, finds a way to make the human body invisible. The motivation for the discovery was not practical use:

It seems incredible, but as a result of the experiment, the scientist turns himself into invisibility. From that moment on, his life becomes a torment - he is forced to hide because of the persecution on suspicion of murder, his strange appearance causes confusion among people. The experiment was successful, but at what cost! His task is to become visible again, but his diaries, which contain all the necessary formulas and calculations for the reverse transformation, ended up in the hands of another person.

Griffin asks Kemp, an old friend he studied with, to help him get the diaries back. However, Kemp does not share his aspirations and plans to take possession of the records in order to use the property of invisibility for personal gain:

Griffin has to destroy his diaries so that the knowledge contained in them does not become an instrument of evil.

The transformation into an invisible man turns into a tragedy for Griffin and his beloved Jane: everyone is terrified of him, his friend betrays him; finally, because of misunderstanding of people, they kill him. Griffin takes the secret of invisibility with him to the grave.

## Cast

* Nina Agapova  - *Mrs. Jenny Hall, owner of the Coach and Horses inn in Iping*
* Victor Sergachev  - *Mr. George Hall*
* Yuri Katin-Yartsev  - the *owner of the magic shop*
* Emmanuel Geller  is the *owner of the house where Griffin lived*
* Anatoly Sakhnovsky  - *police inspector*
* Victor Shulgin  - *Constable Jeffers*
* Vilyus Petrauskas (in the credits  - V. Petrauskas) - *Vicar*
* Herman Kachin  - *Constable Hicks*
* Alexander Pyatkov  - *Sam, the owner of the tavern "The Merry cricketers "*
* Oleg Fedorov  - *American*

## Staff

* Director: Alexander Zakharov
* Producer: Alexander Zakharov
* Script and Writer Alexander Zakharov (with the participation of Andrey Dmitriev)
* Music by Eduard Artemyev
* Cinematography Valery Shuvalov

## Differences from the book

* The events in the film are chronological, while in the book they are not.
* There is a love line in the film, but the book only briefly mentions a girl that Griffin met by chance 10 years later.
* The film shifts the focus from Griffin to Kemp. If in the book Griffin went crazy and dreamed of the kingdom of Terror, then in the film Kemp wants to create the kingdom of Terror.

## References

This is a list of references for **The Invisible Man (1984 film)**. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Invisible\_Man\_(1984\_film)
2. ↑ https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA-%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BA%D0%B0\_(%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC,\_1984)

## Gallery

Main article: The Invisible Man (1984 film)/Gallery

**Japanese**
**Invisible Man Appears* (1949) · *The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly* · *The Invisible Avenger* (1954) · *Invisible Man: Rape!* · Oh! Invisible Man · *Oh! Invisible Man – Invisible Girl Appears!?* · *Invisible Demon* · *The Invisible Swordsman* ·*
**Other**
*Invisible Avenger* · *Invisible Invader* · *Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare* · *Yokai Monsters: Along With Ghosts* · *Kujira Gami* · *Memoirs of an Invisible Man* · *The Invisible Man* (1984) · *The Invisible Man* (1977) · *Dr. Jekyll Meets the Invisible Man* (1977) · *The Human Vapor* · *The Secret of the Telegian* · *The H-Man* · *The Fly* (1958) · *The Invisible Woman* (1969) · *The Amazing Transparent Man* · *Fear the Invisible Man* · *The Invisible Witness* · *The Invisible Man* (2016) · *The Invisible Maniac* · *The Invisible Man* (2017) · *The Invisible Man* (2018) · *Invisible Man* (2018) · *Mad Monster Party* (1967) · *Strangler of the Swamp* · *The Invisible Man Attacks* · *The Incredible Shrinking Man* · *The Astral Factor* · *Attack of the 50 Foot Woman*