Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is.

Max Hubacher
as Herold

Milan Peschel
as Freytag

Frederick Lau
as Kipinski

Alexander Fehling
as Junker

Britta Hammelstein
as Gerda

Waldemar Kobus
as Hansen

Sebastian Rudolph
as Corporal Paul

Marko Dyrlich
as Brockhoff

Alexander Hörbe
as Schnabel Wirt

Sascha Alexander Geršak
as Sichner
SWITCH.
Far from being blockbuster slop that slides from mind an hour after it ends, Robert Schwentke’s first independent feature makes me want to seek out his earlier German films, like ‘Tattoo’ and ‘Eierdiebe’. ‘The Captain’ is a thoughtful, brutal and morbidly amusing study of the corrupting nature of po...