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  • 2018
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 58 m
  • 2018
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 58 m

Summary 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. Emboldened by the authority the uniform grants him, he amasses a band of stragglers who cede to his command despit...

Directed By: Robert Schwentke

Written By: Robert Schwentke

  • 2018
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 58 m
  • 2018
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 58 m

The Captain

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
67
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 21 User Ratings
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Summary 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. Emboldened by the authority the uniform grants him, he amasses a band of stragglers who cede to his command despit...

Directed By: Robert Schwentke

Written By: Robert Schwentke

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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100
Oct 2, 2018
The stark beauty of Florian Ballhaus’s black-and-white cinematography and painterly framing can’t conceal the ugliness that unfolds as the death toll mounts and Herold starts to believe his own grotesque creation.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
80
Jul 26, 2018
The Captain, Robert Schwentke’s harrowing World War II psychodrama, isn’t what you would call enjoyable, exactly. More accurately, it compels our attention with a remorseless, gripping single-mindedness, presenting Naziism as a communicable disease that smothers conscience, paralyzes resistance and extinguishes all shreds of humanity.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
78
Aug 8, 2018
Does the man make the uniform, or does the uniform make the man? Schwentke's conclusion is as dark as you may fear.
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70
Jul 27, 2018
The film-craft is high quality, with the passion and care taken evident. Schwentke brings the brutal winter during wartime to realistic life. If you have historical interest in deep details of the war, or are fascinated by psychopathic war criminals, this might be a film for you.
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63
Aug 7, 2018
The movie’s an artfully sustained guessing game, tense and rarely dull. It’s also afflicted with a jokey, jaunty tone as deliberate as it is limiting.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
60
Jul 25, 2018
It’s too bleak to laugh at and too absurd to cry over. That it’s true adds another insanity-inducing element.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 25, 2018
In one fashion, Robert Schwentke proves to be too complicit with his protagonist, regarding evil and human banality as stimulation.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Filmgalerie 451, Alfama Films, Opus Film, Hands-on Producers, Eurimages, Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, Worst Case Entertainment
Release Date Jul 27, 2018
Duration 1 h 58 m
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Tagline Follow the Leader
Website http://www.DerHauptmann-film.de/
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Awards

CinEuphoria Awards
• 10 Wins & 22 Nominations
German Film Awards
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Les Arcs European Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations

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