In April 1945, during the final weeks of the war, Willi Herold, a young Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger (paratrooper) escapes the pursuit of a roving German military police commando who wishes to execute him for desertion. After his escape, Herold finds an abandoned car containing the uniform of a decorated Luftwaffe captain. Herold takes the uniform and impersonates an officer, taking command of a number of stragglers as he moves through the German countryside under the guise that he is on a mission, ordered by Hitler himself, to assess morale behind the front. Although initially promising the local populace a decrease in looting, Herold becomes increasingly despotic as more disparate troops join his command, named Kampfgruppe Herold. These troops include Freytag, a kind, aging rifleman who is made Herold's driver, and Kipinski, a sadistic drunk. Eventually, the Kampfgruppe find a camp full of deserters awaiting execution and assumes control over operations there.
Starring Max Hubacher
Frederick Lau
Bernd Hölscher
Waldemar Kobus
Alexander Fehling
Samuel Finzi
Spoken languages: German
Subtitles: Danish,Swedish,Norwegian,Finnish
