Product Description

A French prisoner of war, Abel Tiffauges ends up in far away East Prussia. He experiences the land and its life as a romantic adventure whether as factotum for the Reichsjagermeister, the Imperial Master Hunter Goering or as the minder of over 400 young men in Kaltenborn Castle.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58783 in DVD
• Brand: MALKOVICH,JOHN
• Released on: 2007-07-17
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 118 minutes

Customer Reviews

A really great movie
This is a really great DVD movie, one of the best I've seem in many years and I consider myself a hard critic. You can read the story line, a yound Frenchman, a loner with an affinity for children ends of accused of molesting a young girl and ends up joining the French Army on the eve of WWll. No sooner enlisted, Malcovich is captured and sent to a German POW camp. He is rescued by a German senior officer who sends him to Hermann Goering's hunting chalet where he is employed as an assistant. He later gains employment at a NAZI youth training school in a castle as a "house father" for the German youth. He fits in very well and eventually becomes a recruiter of young German boys from the local peasants who distrust their German NAZI Govt training schools. Soon the Russians are invading Germany, and the Germans begin enlisting the oldest boys from the castle school for the defense of Germany and the war is, of course, lost.

It is a very sad movie in that Malcovich is never accepted in his native France and he truly wants to protect children and is given that opportunity in a NAZI youth school, where he excels. The action is good and easy to follow, the characters very forceful, especially the NAZI officers. This DVD is a bargain and a real gem.

Great film, unnecessary DVD
This is a superb film, as I detailed in my review of the videotape version. If you don't have it, get it in one form or another. If you do have the tape, I must only say that this DVD has no extras whatsoever except for a couple previews.