Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany, France, Poland
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- In German — subtitles on.
The story
Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of a Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is.
- prisoner
- desertion
- world war ii
- nazi officer
- impersonator
- black and white
- army captain
- third reich (iii reich 1933-45)
- 1940s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Britta Hammelstein — Gerda
- Waldemar Kobus — Hansen
- Sebastian Rudolph — Corporal Paul
- Marko Dyrlich — Brockhoff
- Alexander Hörbe — Schnabel Wirt
- Sascha Alexander Geršak — Sichner
- Blerim Destani — Dahler-Kaufmann
- Haymon Maria Buttinger — Dr. Kremer
- Eugenie Anselin — Irmgard
- Shannon Staller — Jenny
- Samuel Finzi — Roger
- Directed
- Robert Schwentke
- Written
- Robert Schwentke
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 505 ratings
- Studio
- Filmgalerie 451, Alfama Films, Opus Film, Facing East, Worst Case Entertainment, hands-on producers
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
