The Ogre (1996)
- Original title
- Der Unhold
- Directed by
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Genre
- drama film, war film
- Country
- Germany, United Kingdom, France
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Rated
- U
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 49 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A gentle French mechanic with a deep affinity for children and animals is swept into World War Two. He ends up working at an elite Nazi school in East Prussia where his innocence clashes with the regime's brutality.
melancholictenseslow-burnbleakunsettlingcerebralvisually lushdreamlike
What happens
The Ogre (German: Der Unhold; French: Le roi des aulnes) is a 1996 war drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff and written by Schlöndorff and Jean-Claude Carrière. It is based on 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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