Fresh
Schlondorff and Jean-Claude Carriere find in Michel Tournier's novel a companion piece to their earlier Gunter Grass adaptation, The Tin Drum.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Volker Schlöndorff Director
- John Malkovich as Abel Tiffauges
- Agnès Soral as Rachel
- Volker Spengler as Fieldmarshall Hermann Goering
- Gottfried John as Chief Forrester
- Armin Mueller-Stahl as Graf von Kaltenborn
- Marianne Sägebrecht as Frau Netta
- Heino Ferch as Napola-Kommandant Raufeisen
- Dieter Laser as Professor Blättchen
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
89%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Episodic and vaguely surreal, it is the antithesis of a Hollywood film that tells us what to feel. Having unfolded an ever-widening series of moral questions, it deliberately leaves them hanging.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Fresh
With his slightly cross- eyed gaze of wonderment mixed with ferocious intensity, Malkovich makes Abel both childlike and frightening.
Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle
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