


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.

John Malkovich
Abel

Armin Mueller-Stahl
Count von Kaltenborn

Gottfried John
Chief Forester

Marianne Sägebrecht
Frau Netta

Volker Spengler
Fieldmarshall Hermann Göring

Heino Ferch
SS Officer Raufeisen

Dieter Laser
Professor Blättchen

Agnès Soral
Rachel
Sasha Hanau
Martine

Vernon Dobtcheff
Lawyer

Simon McBurney
Brigadier
Ilja Smoljanski
Ephraim

Luc Florian
Prisoner of War #1

Laurent Spielvogel
Prisoner of War #2

Marc Duret
Prisoner of War #3
Philippe Sturbelle
Prisoner of War #4

Jacques Ciron
State Attorney

Patrick Floersheim
Police Captain
Caspar Salmon
Young Abel
Daniel Smith
Nestor
Volker Schlöndorff
Jean-Claude Carrière, Volker Schlöndorff
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