It’s two weeks before the end of the war, and the Third Reich is unravelling. Deserters are pillaging and stealing in order to survive. One of them, Willi Herold (Max Hubacher), his face scabbed with crusted mud, stumbles upon an officer’s uniform in an abandoned truck. He puts it on. And immediately his bearing changes. The uniform brings him status and power, both of which he discovers a taste for. But if clothes maketh the man, in this case they make him a monster. Emboldened by the opportunistic soldiers who attach themselves to him, he embarks on a precarious game of brinksmanship, brutally raising the stakes every time it looks like he might be discovered.

  • Duration: 118
  • Production year: 2017
  • Country: Germany, France, Poland

Robert Schwentke

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