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The Ogre

1996

Volker Schlöndorff

1996·R·GermanyGermanyFranceFranceUnited KingdomUnited KingdomPolandPoland
Award tierBronze

Frenchman Abel Tiffauges likes children, and wants to protect them against the grown-ups. Falsely suspected as child molester, he's recruited as a soldier in the 2nd World War, but very soon he is taken prisoner of war. After shortly serving in Goerings hunting lodge, he becomes the dogsbody in Kaltenborn Castle, an elite training camp for German boys. Completely happy to take care of these children, he becomes a servant of Nazism, catching boys from the area as supplies for the camp.

Cast

John Malkovich·Marianne Sägebrecht·Armin Mueller-Stahl·Gottfried John

Producers

Chris Auty·Claude Berri·Pierre Couveinhes·Andreas Grosch·Gebhard Henke

Languages

United KingdomEnglishGermanyGermanFranceFrench

Major Awards

0 wins · 1 nomination

Nominations (1)

Festival Grand Prize

Venice Film Festival (1996)

Golden Lion

Volker Schlöndorff