In 'The Captain,' Clothes Make The Man — And The Monster
A German deserter in the waning days of World War II dons a discarded Nazi officer's uniform for warmth, but soon finds himself wielding its authority with unnerving and violent cruelty.
The first image in Robert Schwentke's The Captain is an open field. You hear World War II coming before you see it — an off-key trumpet, gunshots, the roar of a truck.
With the German war machine in its death throes, shedding men and munitions as it flails, Willi Herold (Max Hubacher), a German deserter, is being chased across the
