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The Ogre

The Ogre1996

★6.4113 minDramaWar

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.

Director

Volker Schlöndorff

Writer

Volker Schlöndorff Jean-Claude Carrière

Score

Stars

John Malkovich Armin Mueller-Stahl Gottfried John

Cast43

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
S
Sasha Hanau
as Martine
Vernon Dobtcheff
as Lawyer
Simon McBurney
as Brigadier
I
Ilja Smoljanski
as Ephraim
Luc Florian
as Prisoner of War #1
Laurent Spielvogel
as Prisoner of War #2
Marc Duret
as Prisoner of War #3
P
Philippe Sturbelle
as Prisoner of War #4
Jacques Ciron
as State Attorney
Patrick Floersheim
as Police Captain
C
Caspar Salmon
as Young Abel
D
Daniel Smith
as Nestor
R
Ryan O'Leary
as Clément
L
Lars Albiez
as Lothar
C
Claude Degen
as Priest
Thierry Monfray
as Teacher
Jacques Brunet
as Principal at School
Sylvie Huguel
as Martine's Mother
Erick Deshors
as Hervé
Jérôme Keen
as Abel's Client
L
Lyèce Boukhitine
as Ahmed
Christine Paolini
as Nestor's Mother
M
Maximilian Haas
as Napola Boy #1
R
Robert Beyer
as Napola Boy #2
N
Norman Daugs
as Napola Boy #3
Joachim Paul Assböck
as Messenger Officer
Bartosz Obuchowicz
as Country Boy
Małgorzata Rożniatowska
as Country Boy's Mother
Piotr Grabowski
as German Officer
Andrzej Szenajch
as Old Napola Teacher
L
Lothar Pinnig
as Napola Teacher
J
Jerzy Orłowski
as Disabled Officer
Norbert Rakowski
as SS Man
Ilja Zmiejew
as Russian Officer
Adolf Hitler
as Self (archive footage)

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