The Ogre

Sep 12, 1996

1h 53m

★ 6.4

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

War

Production Companies

Recorded Picture Company

Renn Productions

Studio Babelsberg

UFA

Canal+

France 2 Cinéma

WDR

Heritage Films

The Ogre Trailers

Cast

Abel

John Malkovich

Count von Kaltenborn

Armin Mueller-Stahl

Chief Forester

Gottfried John

Frau Netta

Marianne Sägebrecht

Fieldmarshall Hermann Göring

Volker Spengler

SS Officer Raufeisen

Heino Ferch

Professor Blättchen

Dieter Laser

Rachel

Agnès Soral

Martine

Sasha Hanau

Lawyer

Vernon Dobtcheff

Brigadier

Simon McBurney

Ephraim

Ilja Smoljanski

Lucinda Price is sent to a reform academy under the assumption that she has killed a boy. There, she meets two mysterious boys, Cam and Daniel, to whom she feels drawn to both. But as the love triangle unfurls, it is Daniel that Luce cannot keep herself away from, and things begin to take a darker turn when she finds out his true identity.

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6.2

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6.4

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7.1

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5.8

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6.9

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5.8

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7.0

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3.0

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7.5

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