I am writing this blog to recommend the film "The Captain". I had not heard or seen anything about this film until I saw it listed in Sky Films, checked on some reviews anddecided to watch it yesterday. It is a German film, with English subtitles, based on actual events. The central character is a young conscript in the Wehrmacht during the last two weeks of WW2. He has deserted and, following a chase sequence, he finds a Luftwaffe car with a very smart Luftwaffe officer's uniform in a suitcase. He borrows the car and the uniform, adopts the persona of the officer and gathers around him a motley crew of other deserters. I am reminded of Acton's saying - "Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely".
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