He immediately begins to beat, rob, and kill the prisoners. It is here the sadistic Kipinski rises to the occasion. Our group comes across a prison camp which is populated with German deserters. It is as if the best way not to be accused of being a deserter is to show your blind commitment to the Captain and carry out his murderous intentions. The men, who gather around Willi, do not question his orders. Task Force Herold is on a mission to “find clarity on the situation behind the front.” In doing so they will not tolerate looters or deserters. Kipinski is a violent sadist, who is the focus of the violence which begins to unfold as the movie moves forward. Freytag comes across as a gentle kind man who questions the brutality he is confronted with. The two could not be more opposite in their beliefs. Among these are two characters, Freytag played by Milan Peschel and Kipinski played by Frederick Lau. He soon gathers around him a group of stragglers/deserters who follow his orders without asking questions. He is a on a special assignment ordered directly from no other than Hitler himself. In this case Willi truly becomes the uniform and clearly believes he is the Captain. The movie conveys the belief everyone is looking for a leader, someone to tell them what to do. This is a very interesting aspect of the movie' the authority the uniform commands. Just moments before he was running for his life now, he finds himself empowered as result of the uniform. Initially thinking only of surviving, Willi puts the uniform on to stay warm and eats the food however, the uniform transforms Willi into a man who has discovered authority. He comes across an abandoned car with a former Luftwaffe Officer’s uniform and some food in the back seat. Willi turns out to be a very resourceful young man. The movie successfully pulls you into this dark landscape and you feel the desperation of the situation. There is no sign of life as the film pans out across this dark dreadful landscape. The filming poignantly shows the hopelessness of the situation. We see a landscape which is dark, grey, and dirty white the landscape seems to go on forever. Shot in black and white, at times reminiscent of Schindler’s List, the filming is beautiful and at the same time very disturbing. He manages to escape and then you realize the hopelessness of his situation. The opening scene shows Willi running from a group of German soldiers, intent on killing him. This is a very dark brutal film which clearly depicts the chaos which existed towards the end of the war. The Captain is directed by Robert Schwentke, who directed two of the science fiction action films, Insurgent and Allegiant from the Divergent trilogy. He is very convincing as a private who has deserted from his unit and is merely trying to survive. Max Hubacher, who plays the movie's anti-hero Willi Herold, does a remarkable job. The Captain is a dark, brutal film which looks at World War II’s final days from the perspective of German soldiers behind the frontlines.ĭer Hauptmann, released in March 2018, takes place behind the German frontlines in April 1945, weeks before the end of the war.
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