The Captain (2017 film)
| The Captain | |
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| Directed by | Robert Schwentke |
| Written by | Robert Schwentke |
| Produced by | Frieder Schlaich |
| Starring | Max Hubacher Frederick Lau Bernd Hölscher Waldemar Kobus Alexander Fehling Samuel Finzi |
| Cinematography | Florian Ballhaus |
| Edited by | Michał Czarnecki |
| Music by | Martin Todsharow |
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Running time | 118 minutes |
| Countries | Germany France Poland |
| Language | German |
| Box office | $241,358 |
The Captain (German: Der Hauptmann) is a 2017 international co-produced historical drama film written and directed by Robert Schwentke. It was screened in the Special Presentations section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. It tells the story of German war criminal Willi Herold, who assumed a stolen identity as a German officer and orchestrated the killing of deserters and other prisoners at one of the Emslandlager camps.