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Europa Europa
Why this pick
Like The Captain, it makes identity a perilous wartime performance, following a young man forced to inhabit a Nazi role amid constant moral and physical danger.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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The Captain
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In the final stages of the second World War, a young German soldier finds a Nazi captain's uniform and begins impersonating the officer. However he is quickly forced to come to terms with the monstrous identity of the perpetrators he's escaping from.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Milan Peschel
Freytag
Marko Dyrlich
Brockhoff
David Scheller
Claasen
Blerim Destani
Dahler-Kaufmann
Christian Wagner
Linke
Samuel Finzi
Roger
Alexander Hörbe
Schnabel Wirt
Hendrik Arnst
Weyher