The Captain
Follow the leader
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2/2/2018Runtime
118 minsOverview
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.
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A pitch-black parable about obedience and the seductive nature of authority, told through the true story of a deserter who discovers that a stolen uniform grants him absolute power over men desperate to believe in something, anything, in the collapsing Third Reich.
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