The Captain

The Captain (Der Hauptmann, 2018) is a German war drama directed by Robert Schwentke — watch online on iFILM. April 1945, the Reich collapsing on every front. Nineteen-year-old deserter Willi Herold is running for his life when he stumbles across an abandoned Wehrmacht captain's uniform by the side of a road.

He puts it on. He straightens up. And an army trained to obey rank — not the man inside the coat — snaps to attention. Shot in stark black and white, the film reconstructs the documented case of the real Herold, later known as the Executioner of Emsland, who ordered mass killings of prisoners in the final weeks of the war. Director Schwentke turns the story into something colder than a war film: a precise study of what happens when authority is a costume anyone can steal. Stream The Captain (2018) online on iFILM.