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The Captain (Der Hauptmann)
The Captain follows Willi Herold (Max Hubacher), a German army deserter who stumbles across an abandoned Nazi captain's uniform during the last, desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he stole only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whosoever that happens to be. A parade of fresh atrocities follow in the self-declared captain's wake, and serve as a profound reminder of the consequences of social conformity and untrammeled political power. Simultaneously a historical docudrama, a tar-black comedy, and a sociological treatise, The Captain presents fascism as a pathetic pyramid scheme, a system to be gamed by the most unscrupulous and hollow-souled.
Milan Peschel....Freytag
Frederick Lau....Kipinski
Bernd Hölscher....Schütte
Waldemar Kobus....Hansen
Alexander Fehling....Junker
Samuel Finzi....Roger
Wolfram Koch....Schneider
rest of cast listed alphabetically
Eugenie Anselin....Irmgard
Hendrik Arnst....Weyher
Haymon Maria Buttinger....Dr. Kremer
Blerim Destani....Dahler-Kaufmann
Marko Dyrlich....Brockhoff
Rike Eckermann....Farmer's Wife
Sascha Alexander Gersak....Sichner
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