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Synopsis
The Ogre is a 1996 war drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, adapted by Schlöndorff and Jean-Claude Carrière from Michel Tournier's 1970 novel The Erl-King. The film stars John Malkovich as Abel Tiffauges, a childlike French mechanic whose fascination with children and animals leads him, during the Second World War, from French civilian life to a Nazi elite school in East Prussia. The cast also includes Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gottfried John, Marianne Sägebrecht, Volker Spengler, Heino Ferch, Dieter Laser and Agnès Soral.
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Credits
- Producer
- Gebhard Henke
- Director
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Screenplay
- Jean-Claude Carrière
- Director of Photography
- Bruno de Keyzer
- Original Music Composer
- Michael Nyman
- Editor
- Nicolas Gaster
- Country
- Germany, United Kingdom, France
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