

The Ode to Joy
2006 Directed by Masanobu DemeBased on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship of the German POWs with the director of the camp and local residents at the stage of Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture, in Japan.
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Ken Matsudaira
....................................................Matsue

Bruno Ganz
....................................................Kurt Heinrich

Hiroshi Abe
....................................................Iko

Jun Kunimura
....................................................Takagi

Oliver Bootz
....................................................Carl Baum

Kostja Ullmann
....................................................Herman Lake

Suzuka Ohgo
....................................................Shio
Director
...........................................................Masanobu Deme
Executive Producer
...........................................................Yusuke Okada
Writer
...........................................................Motomu Furuta
Director of Photography
...........................................................Kazutami Hara
Art Direction
...........................................................Yoshinobu Nishioka
Original Music Composer
...........................................................Shinichiro Ikebe
Editor
...........................................................Shin'ya Tadano
Production Companies
...................................................Yomiuri Shimbun Company
Nippan Group Holdings
Shinano Art & Culture Consultant Co., Ltd.
TV Asahi
Tokyo FM
Toei Company
Production Countries
........................................................Germany
Japan
Spoken Languages
....................................................Deutsch
日本語
Genres
....................................................Drama
History
War
Music
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