The Ogre
Synopsis
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.
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Director (1)
Actors (22)
Production and distribution (3)
- Co-productions : Renn Productions, France 2 Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : Studio Babelsberg, Recorded Picture Company
- French distribution : AMLF
Full credits (13)
- Screenwriter : Jean-Claude Carrière
- Director of Photography : Bruno De Keyzer
- Music Composer : Michael Nyman
- Editor : Nicolas Gaster
- Sound Recordist : Karl-Heinz Laabs
- Costume designer : Anna Sheppard
- Foreign producers : Volker Schlöndorff, Jeremy Thomas
- Author of original work : Michel Tournier
- Co-producer : Claude Berri
- Sound Assistant : Steven Ghouti
- Assistant Operator : Daniel Leterrier
- Press Attachés (film) : Dominique Segall, Marco Martin
- Production Designers : Ezio Frigerio, Didier Naert
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Literary adaptation , Drama, Philosophical tale
- Themes : Childhood
- Production language : German, English
- Coproducer countries : Germany, France, Great Britain
- Original French-language productions : No
- Nationality : Minority French (Germany, France, Great Britain)
- Production year : 1996
- French release : 02/10/1996
- Runtime : 1 h 58 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 88.637
- Visa issue date : 06/09/1996
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
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"The most French of German directors, Volker Schlöndorff here follows up with the same relish the evocation of Nazism first touched upon in "The Tin Drum". In both films, his appeal to the fantastic makes for a transmutation of sordid horror into a grandiose opera of universal scope. "The Tin Drum" was Hitler as seen by Tom Thumb, here "The Ogres" rally to the cause. (...) Images, editing, sets, music : comment seems pointless in the face of Schlöndorff's consummate skill in springing traps and disarming obstacles. Little by little, from the depths of a mild and murky fascination surfaces the unease required of lucidity which gives way to a thankful bewilderment before the gripping subtlety of the tale that has enchanted us. Two astounding performances give added power to the role of Abel. Caspar Salmon, whose acting really shone through in "L'Elève", plays Abel the child. Followed up by John Malkovich, who brings his cool intensity, and offbeat serenity to bear upon this unlikely and immature magus of war-time disaster.(...)"
(Pierre Billard - Le Point)
