# Der Hauptmann (2018)

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**Runtime**: 118 min
**Genres**: War, Drama, History
**Directed by**: Robert Schwentke
**Written by**: Robert Schwentke
**Starring**: Max Hubacher, Milan Peschel, Frederick Lau, Alexander Fehling, Britta Hammelstein, Waldemar Kobus

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## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You're a Wehrmacht deserter in the Third Reich's final days. You find an abandoned Nazi officer's uniform and try it on, but people begin mistaking you for a captain. Schwentke finds the humor in wartime atrocities. The film lingers on the banality of power.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, dread, paranoid, pitch-black, raw

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