-Date: 21, 24, 31 Aug-

"It’s a movie with echoes of Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum or Ralf Rothmann’s To Die in Spring – written and directed by Robert Schwentke, a veteran of commercial Hollywood fare who has gone back to basics with this brutally stark picture, shot by Florian Ballhaus in a crystalline black-and-white: a look inspired, perhaps, by Spielberg’s Schindler’s List." - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian.

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Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of 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.