"The Ogre"
1996
Directed by Volker Schlondorff

Germany's Nazi past is presented as a dark fable in Volker Schlondorff's (The Tin Drum) adaptation of Michel Tournier's novel Le Roides Aulnes. John Malkovich stars as a French prisoner of war, ordered by his German captors to round up children for Hitler's youth movement, only to see them sacrificed on the front lines as the Third Reich begins to collapse. Armin Mueller-Stahl and Marianne Sagebrecht co-star. Original music by Michael Nyman. "A remarkable accomplishment by a major director working with the cream of Germany's character actors" (Kevin Thomas, L.A. Times). A German/French, British co-production. In English, 117 minutes.