Directed by Volker Schlöndorff • 1996 • Germany
Starring John Malkovich, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gottfried John
Having previously collaborated on their Oscar-winning adaptation of THE TIN DRUM, screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and director Volker Schlöndorff turned once again to the traumas of mid-twentieth-century Europe in this profoundly unsettling take on Michel Tournier’s novel “The Erl-King.” In an astonishing performance, John Malkovich stars as Abel Tiffauges, a gentle Frenchman whose childlike naivete is twisted by the Nazis toward the most horrible of ends: recruiting young boys for the Hitler Youth. Like THE TIN DRUM, THE OGRE views the horrors of World War II through the expressionistic eyes of a singular, unforgettable character.
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff • 2000 • Germany
Starring Bibiana Beglau, Nadja Uhl, Martin Wuttke
Volker Schlöndorff delves into the fractured political climate of 1970s East and West Germany in this remarkably nuanced historical drama. Rita Vogt (Bibiana Beglau) is a fugitive West German politi...
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff • 2014 • France, Germany
Starring André Dussollier, Niels Arestrup, Burghart Klaussner
As the Allies march toward Paris in the summer of 1944, Hitler gives orders that the French capital should not fall into enemy hands, or if it does, then “only as a field of rubb...
