The Ogre
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.
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Cast
43 people
John Malkovich
Abel
Known for
RED
Bird Box
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Count von Kaltenborn
Known for
Eastern Promises
The Thirteenth Floor
Gottfried John
Chief Forester
Known for
GoldenEye
World on a Wire
Marianne Sägebrecht
Frau Netta
Known for
Bagdad Cafe
The War of the Roses
Volker Spengler
Fieldmarshall Hermann Göring
Known for
In a Year with 13 Moons
Chinese Roulette
Heino Ferch
SS Officer Raufeisen
Known for
Downfall
Napoleon
Dieter Laser
Professor Blättchen
Known for
The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Agnès Soral
Rachel
Known for
So Long, Stooge
The Antidote
Sasha Hanau
Martine
Known for
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Mary Reilly
Vernon Dobtcheff
Lawyer
Known for
The Odyssey
Before Sunset
Simon McBurney
Brigadier
Known for
Carnival Row
The Theory of Everything
Ilja Smoljanski
Ephraim
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While All Germans Sleep
Volker Schlöndorff Director · Jean-Claude Carrière Screenplay Michel Tournier Author
Worldwide gross $51K · United States release December 11, 1998 · Produced in France, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom
Box office
Worldwide gross
$50,935
Production
Recorded Picture Company
Production
Renn Productions
Production
Studio Babelsberg
Production
UFA
Production
Canal+
Production
France 2 Cinéma
Production
WDR
Production
Heritage Films
Production
StudioCanal
Studio
Universum Film (UFA)
Production
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Production
France · Germany · Poland · United Kingdom
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Der Unhold
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
English · French · German · Hebrew · Latin · Russian
Release dates
Germany · September 12, 1996
Theatrical
United States · December 11, 1998
Premiere · New York City
United States
January 8, 1999 · Premiere · Los Angeles
August 13, 1999 · Premiere · San Francisco
Canada
September 13, 1996 · Premiere · Toronto International Film Festival
China
October 13, 2013 · Premiere · Festival of German Cinema in China
Czechia
December 4, 1997 · Theatrical
France
October 2, 1996 · Theatrical
Hungary
February 5, 1998 · Theatrical
Japan
September 8, 2001 · Theatrical
Poland
October 18, 1996 · Theatrical
Portugal
May 8, 1998 · Theatrical
Spain
March 5, 1997 · Theatrical
Türkiye
January 17, 1997 · Theatrical
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