The Ogre (1996)
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.
- Released
- 1996-09-12
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Volker Schlöndorff, Volker Schlöndorff, Jean-Claude Carrière
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 from 49 votes
Cast
- John Malkovich as Abel
- Armin Mueller-Stahl as Count von Kaltenborn
- Gottfried John as Chief Forester
- Marianne Sägebrecht as Frau Netta
- Volker Spengler as Fieldmarshall Hermann Göring
- Heino Ferch as SS Officer Raufeisen
- Dieter Laser as Professor Blättchen
- Agnès Soral as Rachel
- Sasha Hanau as Martine
- Vernon Dobtcheff as Lawyer
- Simon McBurney as Brigadier
- Ilja Smoljanski as Ephraim