The Captain : L'usurpateur

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.

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Robert Schwentke directed The Captain : L'usurpateur in 2018. See Robert Schwentke's full filmography, where to start with Robert Schwentke, or where to go after you've seen everything by Robert Schwentke.

The Captain : L'usurpateur was released in 2018 (DE original-language production), with a runtime of 118 minutes.