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Sep 12, 1996 · The Ogre: Directed by Volker Schlöndorff. With John Malkovich, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gottfried John, Marianne Sägebrecht. Frenchman Abel Tiffauges likes children, and wants to protect them against the grown-ups.
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- Drama
- Volker Schlöndorff
- 1996-09-12
Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Astonishing, disturbing, and altogether an affecting piece of work, The Ogre is Schlondorff -- and everyone else involved -- working in top form.
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- John Malkovich
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Drama
Volker Schlondorff's intermittently powerful "Ogre" stars John Malkovich as Abel Tiffauges, a seemingly mentally handicapped Frenchman who finds himself gallivanting across Europe during the Second World War. Like his character in "Of Mice and Men", Malkovich plays Abel as a dim witted, obedient giant.
Abel's escapades earn him the nickname "the Ogre" in the neighborhood. In the film's climax, the last-ditch Nazi fantasy of a heroic children's crusade against the invading Russian army collapses in a fiery Gotterdammerung as the Russian tanks arrive at the castle. Schlondorff treats this fantastical story as an expressionistic fable with some ...
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The Ogre ( German: Der Unhold) is a 1996 French-German-British war drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff and starring John Malkovich, Gottfried John, Marianne Sägebrecht, Volker Spengler, Heino Ferch, Dieter Laser and Armin Mueller-Stahl. It was written by Jean-Claude Carrière and Schlöndorff, based on the novel The Erl-King by Michel ...
- $49,166 (USA)
- Michael Nyman
- Gebhard Henke, Ingrid Windisch
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000. Stephen Holden New York Times. TOP CRITIC. Episodic and vaguely surreal, it is the antithesis of a Hollywood film that tells us what to feel ...
Sep 9, 1996 · The Ogre Volker Schlondroff's largescale Euro co-production, based on a French novel, "The Erl King," by Michel Tournier, delves into the dark days of the Third Reich with positive intentions but ...