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The Ogre (1996)
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
Drama, War · 1h 53m
Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a soldier when World War II begins, but is captured soon and taken to the heart of Nazi Germany.
Cast
John Malkovich
Abel
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Count von Kaltenborn
Gottfried John
Chief Forester
Marianne Sägebrecht
Frau Netta
Volker Spengler
Fieldmarshall Hermann Göring
Heino Ferch
SS Officer Raufeisen
Dieter Laser
Professor Blättchen
Agnès Soral
Rachel
S
Sasha Hanau
Martine
Vernon Dobtcheff
Lawyer
Simon McBurney
Brigadier
I
Ilja Smoljanski
Ephraim
Crew
- Director
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Screenplay
- Jean-Claude Carrière, Volker Schlöndorff
- Novel
- Michel Tournier
- Director of Photography
- Bruno de Keyzer
- Original Music Composer
- Michael Nyman
- Editor
- Nicolas Gaster
- Producer
- Gebhard Henke, Ingrid Windisch
Details
- Original title
- Der Unhold
- Release date
- 1996-09-12
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- English, French, German, Hebrew, Latin, Russian
- Countries
- France, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom
- Production
- Recorded Picture Company, Renn Productions, Studio Babelsberg, UFA, Canal+, France 2 Cinéma, WDR, Heritage Films
- Box office
- $50,935