Der Unhold

Der Unhold (1996)

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.

Data lansării
1996-09-12
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (49)
Durată
1 h 53 min
Genuri
Dramă, Război
Regizor
Volker Schlöndorff

Distribuție

Curiozități

  • Bazat pe: The Erl-King
  • Filmat în: Paris

The Ogre is a 1996 war drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, adapted by Schlöndorff and Jean-Claude Carrière from 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.

Production

The film was adapted from Michel Tournier's novel Le Roi des Aulnes, published in English as The Erl-King. The screenplay was written by Schlöndorff and Jean-Claude Carrière, who had previously collaborated on Schlöndorff's The Tin Drum.

An earlier attempt to film Tournier's novel had been made by East German director Rainer Simon during the DEFA period. Simon had approached Tournier in the 1980s with the idea of adapting the novel, but the project was not realized. After German reunification, the material was eventually filmed by Schlöndorff; Filmportal credits Simon as co-author.

Principal photography took place from 25 July to 9 December 1995 in Paris, Malbork in Poland and Norway. The production companies included Studio Babelsberg, Renn Productions and Recorded Picture Company, with France 2 Cinéma and WDR as co-producers, and Canal+, Heritage Film Ltd. and UFA Babelsberg also involved.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Göring's hunting lodge was recreated at Babelsberg, while much of the academy material was filmed at Malbork Castle, which the review described as one of the major monuments of the Teutonic Knights.

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