Der Hauptmann von Muffrika

Release Year
1996
Runtime
1h 13m
Genres
Documentary
Directed By
Rudolf Kersting
Paul Meyer
Der Hauptmann von Muffrika

In April 1945, the German soldier Willi Herold is separated from his group. He finds a decorated captain's uniform in an abandoned car and decides to use it. Using the authority of this captain persona, he gathers a group of soldiers around him in the Emsland region near Papenburg and the border with the northern Netherlands, where he commits a range of war atrocities.

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