Dresses make mordes

Dresses make mordes

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"Captain": Robert Schwentkes Skinny farce over the true story of the "Henkers of the Emsland"

You can also make this movie benevolent, to the carnival, because excesses not only happen, but will be wide-made in opulent images. Because costume are worn, and sometimes just here "Over the top" is. Or you can save him in front of yourself how another critic is trying and the movie "Protect against it" want. However, however, it would simply look at and back?

"That’s just once, that’s never coming back", Sings the soldier when he found a captain uniform. Lilian Harvey’s song, composed by the German Jew Werner Heyman and therefore prohibited to the Nazi time, but unbroken popular, becomes a horror song in this movie: it suits the prime Willi Herold as he, the deserter, in the last weeks of the Second World War sullen a blank car and finds the perfect bulleted uniform of a captain.

Dresses make people, and that’s how he attracts them, from the desperate, vulnerable rural in Nu an officer. Initially, he still zoves the command, but soon he transforms into a dashing grinder, born commander and fanatical Nazi. And he transforms into a mass mortar, which draws marauding Uber’s land, and murder in a camp in the Emsland over a hundred prisoners, other vibrated soldiers to collect, one (by him’s naturally invented) "Battle force Herold" for "Special tasks" formed, and with this group from now on by the explosive Nazi Germany and takes on what she wants.

The desire for one who takes responsibility

"The location is always what you do", Formulated by Newcomer Max Hubacher impressively played Herold once quite early in the movie his credo. Such ‘abysmal pragmatism is the a facet of the last weekly weeks, as the director Robert Schwentke originating from Stuttgart shows us. Everybody is coming to himself only around himself and about their own survival.

Farmers dead plunderers with the fibfabel, a coarse part of the soldiers is procured with the picking up of deserters and emerging in memories of early years: "Poland!", "Narwik!" The second facet is the strange holding on the longest as incorrectly recognized: "If you start something, you should come to an end", Say here meantime again figures. The third, central point are readiness for obedience and longing for one who orders and "take responsibility". This desire is in the center of the film.

Dresses make mordes

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This is a Copenickiade, but one without all the cuteness, but from the true life of April 1945. She shows the Bose truth behind the popular kitsch of the "Captain of Copenick", An abysmal history of Lufthengeist, German Sadism and the decay of all values in the years of civilization break among the Nazis.

With his movie "Captain", For the Cameraman Florian Ballhaus at the Film Festival San Sebastian won the price of the best picture design, the German director Robert Schwentke raises a view of National Socialism, as it has never seen him despite hundreds of television documentation and several dozen German feature films: in black and white.

Pile

And with the courage for tastelessness – for how could you still tastefully show tastelessness of the Nazis, without betraying the victims? -, Full of courage also to look. With freeze-dried humor and curiosity, with grief and lane horror in view of the ever-galopistic nightmare, Schwentke succeeds in a film that shows National Socialism as the bloody travesty, as a high staple and the outbreak of underpressed shoots he was – this is finally once A film from Germany, which shows German fascism from his most busiest side, without Nazis who is well-maintained articulate that somehow ‘good reason’ for her to do and hides him somehow justified.

Dresses make mordes

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This is a film of strong pictures, not the many words. And yet the pictures are completely different than in Quentin Tatinos "Inglourious Basterds". You will be laughing soon only for embarrassment.

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