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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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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Cast
- John MalkovichAbel
- Armin Mueller-StahlCount von Kaltenborn
- Gottfried JohnChief Forester
- Marianne SägebrechtFrau Netta
- Volker SpenglerFieldmarshall Hermann Göring
- Heino FerchSS Officer Raufeisen
- Dieter LaserProfessor Blättchen
- Agnès SoralRachel
- Sasha HanauMartine
- Vernon DobtcheffLawyer
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- Volker SchlöndorffDirector
- Jean-Claude CarrièreScreenplay
- Volker SchlöndorffScreenplay
- Michel TournierNovel
- Bruno de KeyzerDirector of Photography
- Michael NymanOriginal Music Composer
- Nicolas GasterEditor
- Gebhard HenkeProducer
- Ingrid WindischProducer
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