Der Hauptmann von Muffrika

movie

movie poster for Der Hauptmann von Muffrika

Released April 01, 1996

Overview

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.