Max Hubacher
Willi Herold
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It was screened in the Special Presentations section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. It tells the story of German war criminal Willi Herold , who assumed a stolen identity as a German officer and orchestrated the killing of deserters and other prisoners at one of the Emslandlager camps.
- $241,358
- Martin Todsharow
- Frieder Schlaich
Jul 27, 2018 · 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. Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators he's escaping from.
- (20K)
- Drama, History, Thriller
- Robert Schwentke
- 2018-07-27
Jul 27, 2018 · 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
Jul 27, 2018 · “The Captain” is based on the real-life story of Willi Herold, who was separated from his regiment during the German army’s retreat back to its home company and, upon assuming the identity of a captain, came upon a prison camp where he ordered the execution of more than 100 inmates.
April 11, 2020. 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.
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 officer. By Peter Debruge.
