The picture from the movie included in this review, illustrates this dramatic scene and at this point you wonder if anyone or anything can stop Willi. When the bombing is over, the camp lies in ruins, but Willi walks out of the ashes. The prison camp is bombed and destroyed by Allied fighter planes. On several occasions, he is asked to show his papers and each time is able to wiggle out of the situation. There are times during the movie in which Willi is questioned concerning who he is. It is as if he realizes the absurdity of his intentions and is laughing at all those around him for believing in him. The picture from the movie, of him staring at the car’s mirror is a perfect illustration of this. At various times during the movie, Hubacher’s expression leads one to believe Willi is very pleased with himself. Max Hubacher, is very convincing as the Captain, his performance is the highlight of this extremely dark movie. Freytag’s loss of innocence is one of the darker moments in the movie. At one point Willi forces Freytag, who has stayed away from killing anyone, to execute a prisoner. Thiel, the bloodbath begins and Kipinski leads the way in executing hundreds of prisoners. Thiel and convinces him he is acting on orders from Hitler. In this scene which verges on the absurd, and there are several absurd moments in the movie, Willi has a phone conversation with Dr. Hanson wants to court martial the prisoners before executing them. The camp’s Commander, Hansen, played by Waldemar Kobus, questions Willi’s authority and puts in a phone call to Dr.
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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