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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.
Jul 27, 2018 · In the final days of World War II, with Germany's frontlines collapsing into chaos, Willi Herold, a German private separated from his comrades and desperate for food and warmth, comes across an...
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.
Jul 27, 2018 · 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.
Jul 26, 2018 · Based on the astonishing true story of Pvt. Willi Herold (Max Hubacher), a teenage deserter from the German army whose sadism would eventually earn him the nickname of the Executioner of...
The Captain is based on a true set of events which happened in Germany towards the end of the war. The real Willi Herold was executed for his crimes on November 14, 1946. The Captain is not a pleasant movie to watch and is very disturbing.
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.
Based on the arresting true story of the Executioner of Emsland, THE CAPTAIN follows a German army deserter, Willi Herold, after he finds an abandoned Nazi captain’s uniform in the final weeks of World War II.
Jul 27, 2018 · Based on the arresting true story of the Executioner of Emsland, The Captain follows a German army deserter, Willi Herold (Max Hubacher), after he finds an abandoned Nazi captain’s uniform in the final weeks of World War II.
Sep 20, 2017 · Courtesy of TIFF. The rot of Nazism is shown as having contaminated the very German soul in The Captain, an initially compelling if increasingly problematic parable set at the end of World War...
