Music Box Films Presents "THE CAPTAIN" - A Film By Robert Schwentke

MUSIC BOX FILMS
Presents

THE CAPTAIN

A Film By Robert Schwentke

OPENING NEW YORK @ THE QUAD JULY 27TH / LOS ANGELES @ NUART AUGUST 10TH

"Darkly evocative...relentless...arresting", Todd McCarthy - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"A film that fully understands the psychology of the German soldiers and offers unflinching, timeless truth", Tina Hassannia - ROGEREBERT.COM

Based on a disturbing true story, 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.

After an illustrious career in Hollywood, Robert Schwentke's (RED, FLIGHTPLAN) German homecoming film THE CAPTAIN, is simultaneously a historical docudrama, a tar-black comedy, and a sociological treatise, presenting fascism as a pathetic pyramid scheme, a system to be gamed by the most unscrupulous and hollow-souled.

OPENING NEW YORK @ THE QUAD JULY 27TH / LOS ANGELES @ NUART AUGUST 10TH
118 MINUTES | GERMANY, FRANCE, POLAND | 2018 | N