DVD Details
Directed by Robert Schwentke (The Time Travelers Wife, Flight Plan and Red), The Captain, released on DVD 1st October 2018 from Signature Entertainment, is based on the astonishing true story of a teenage German solider whose sadism would eventually earn him the nickname of the Executioner of Emsland.
The Captain picks up two weeks before the end of the war. A petrified soldier, fleeing military police, finds a Nazi captain's uniform to wear and avoid execution. Thus disguised and high on the terrifying charisma of his clothing, he invents a secret mission from the Führer and embarks on a brutal odyssey of torture and slaughter.
