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The Ogre (fairy Tale)
The Ogre may refer to: * Baintha Brakk, a mountain in the Karakoram range of the Himalayas nicknamed The Ogre * ''The Ogre'' (1989 film), 1989 Italian horror film directed by Lamberto Bava * ''The Erl-King'' (novel), a 1970 novel also published as ''The Ogre'' ** ''The Ogre'' (1996 film), a 1996 film by Volker Schlöndorff based on the novel * The Ogre (Idaho), a mountain in Idaho, United States * The Ogre (オーガ, Ōga), referring to Yujiro Hanma from the anime and manga franchise ''Baki The Grappler'' See also *Ogre (other) An ogre is a large, hideous monster of mythology, folklore and fiction. Ogre may also refer to: Comics and manga * Ogre (comics) * Ogre (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character, first appearing in ''X-Men'' in 1967 * Ogre (DC Comics), a DC C ...
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Baintha Brakk
__NOTOC__ Baintha Brakk ( ur, بائنتھا براک) or The Ogre is a steep, craggy mountain, high, in the Panmah Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram mountain range. It is located in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.This region is disputed, and is claimed by India to be an integral part of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. It is famous for being one of the hardest peaks in the world to climb: twenty-four years elapsed between the first ascent in 1977 and the second in 2001. Location Baintha Brakk rises above the north side of the Biafo Glacier, one of the major glaciers of the central Karakoram. It lies about north of Skardu, the major town of the region, and about north of the roadhead at Askole.''Orographical Sketch Map of the Karakoram'' by Jerzy Wala, 1990. Published by the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research. Notable features Baintha Brakk is exceptional in its combination of altitude, height above local terrain, and steepness. It is a complex granite tower, stee ...
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The Ogre (1989 Film)
''The Ogre'' is a 1989 Italian television horror film directed by Lamberto Bava and written by Dardano Sacchetti. It was among four films made for the Italian television series '' Brivido Giallo''. The film released outside of Italy as ''Demons III: The Ogre'', where it was promoted as a sequel to Bava's films ''Demons'' and ''Demons 2''. Synopsis Cheryl, an American writer of horror novels, travels with her husband Tom, and their young son Bobby, to a villa in rural Italy for a few weeks of vacation, and for Cheryl to work on her latest book. When Cheryl begins having nightmares from when she was a child of being stalked by an ugly being, an ogre, she tries to persuade her skeptical husband that the villa has a curse on it and it is using its power to manifest her nightmares into reality, including the demon/ogre. Cheryl must find a way to face her fear and somehow defeat the ogre before it starts claiming victims. Production Following the success of the film ''Demons'' and ...
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The Erl-King (novel)
''The Erl-King'' (french: Le Roi des aulnes) is a 1970 novel by the French writer Michel Tournier. It is also known as ''The Ogre''. It tells the story of a man who recruits children to be Nazis in the belief that he is protecting them. The novel received the Prix Goncourt. The 1996 film '' The Ogre'', directed by Volker Schlöndorff, is based on the novel. Summary The story is about Abel Tiffauges, who attends the Saint-Christophe boarding-school where he meets Nestor, a privileged student who will take him under his wing and adore him so much as to let him indulge his obsessions. Abel first writes about his childhood and his life in life before 1939 in his personal diary. After World War I, Abel finds himself being a dedicated pigeon keeper and a soldier in Alsace. Then, he is taken prisoner and deported throughout Germany and Poland in East Prussia (German region that corresponds to the current Kaliningrad Oblast/Königsberg in Western Russia). He will later be imprisoned ...
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The Ogre (1996 Film)
''The Ogre'' (german: Der Unhold) is a 1996 French-German-British war drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff and starring John Malkovich, Gottfried John, Marianne Sägebrecht, Volker Spengler, Heino Ferch, Dieter Laser and Armin Mueller-Stahl. It was written by Jean-Claude Carrière and Schlöndorff, based on the novel '' The Erl-King'' by Michel Tournier. The story follows a simple man who recruits children to be Nazis in the belief that he is protecting them. Plot Abel Tiffauges ( Malkovich) is a simple Frenchman at the start of World War II who loves animals and children. The first part of the film recalls his childhood at a sadistic Catholic school for boys where he prays to Saint Christopher that the school, which he sees as a prison, be burned down. By chance, while Abel is being disciplined for spilling lamp oil on the chapel floor, his friend Nestor accidentally sets fire to the building, burning it down as he wished. From that day on, Abel is convinced that fate i ...
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The Ogre (Idaho)
The Ogre is a summit in Idaho County, Idaho, in the United States. It forms part of the Seven Devils Mountains. With an elevation of , The Ogre is the 271st highest summit in the state of Idaho. The Ogre was named from Nez Perce The Nez Percé (; autonym in Nez Perce language: , meaning "we, the people") are an Indigenous people of the Plateau who are presumed to have lived on the Columbia River Plateau in the Pacific Northwest region for at least 11,500 years.Ames, K ... mythology. References Mountains of Idaho County, Idaho Mountains of Idaho {{IdahoCountyID-geo-stub ...
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Yujiro Hanma
The manga series ''Baki the Grappler'' and its sequels feature a large cast of fictional characters created by Keisuke Itagaki. It follows teenager Baki Hanma as he trains and tests his fighting skills against a variety of different opponents in deadly, no rules hand-to-hand combat. His goal is to eventually defeat his ruthless father Yujiro Hanma, who is touted as "the strongest creature on earth" and whom he despises. Many of the characters are fighters trained in various forms of martial arts with skills that reach superhuman levels. Main characters ; : :Baki has been training in martial arts since the age of three, and has trained under various teachers and coaches throughout his life. At the age of thirteen, he decided to take his training into his own hands and left the coaches to perform more intense training in the footsteps of his father, Yujiro Hanma. He later meets with his father and becomes disillusioned as to his father's true character, and afterwards, aims to defeat ...
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