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In April 1945, during the final weeks of the war, Willi Herold, a young Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger (paratrooper) escapes the pursuit of a roving German military police commando who wishes to execute him for desertion. After his escape, Herold finds an abandoned car containing the uniform of a decorated Luftwaffe captain.
The Captain: Directed by Robert Schwentke. With Max Hubacher, Alexander Fehling, Sebastian Rudolph, Max Thommes. In the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captain's uniform.
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- Drama, History, Thriller
- Robert Schwentke
- 2018-07-27
A German army deserter finds a Nazi captain's abandoned uniform during the final weeks of World War II. Emboldened by the authority it suddenly grants him, he amasses a band of stragglers that...
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- Max Hubacher
- Robert Schwentke
- Filmgalerie 451
The Captain is a dark, brutal film which looks at World War II’s final days from the perspective of German soldiers behind the frontlines. Der Hauptmann, released in March 2018, takes place behind the German frontlines in April 1945, weeks before the end of the war.
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Sep 20, 2017 · A dramatic opening in a snowy farmland pulls you right in, as a presumed deserter from the German army desperately tries to escape being gunned down by...
Jul 26, 2018 · Film Review: ‘The Captain’. German director Robert Schwentke examines our troubling relationship with authority in the true story of an imposter who posed as a Nazi...
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Based on a disturbing true story, The Captain follows Willi Herold (Max Hubacher), a German army deserter who stumbles across an abandoned Nazi captain’s uniform during the last, desperate weeks of the Third Reich.
