Napola

Drama, War

Max Riemelt	Friedrich Weimer
Tom Schilling	Albrecht Stein
Devid Striesow	Heinrich Vogler
Joachim Bissmeier	Dr. Karl Klein
Justus von Dohnanyi	Gauleiter Heinrich Stein
Michael Schenk	Josef Peiner 'Peiniger'
Florian Stetter	Justus von Jaucher
Gerald Alexander Held	Herr Weimer
Sissy Höfferer	Frau Weimer
Jonas Jägermeyr	Christoph Schneider

Director	Dennis Gansel
Producer	Viola Jäger; Harald Kügler
Writer	Dennis Gansel; Maggie Peren
Cinematography	Torsten Breuer
Musician	Angelo Badalamenti; Normand Corbeil

NaPolA is the story of Friedrich Weimer (Max Riemelt), a young German boy who possesses an incredible amount of ability at one of the nation’s most popular sports, boxing. In 1942, Weimer’s boxing acumen is recognized and the boy is sent to train at the National Political Academy. The academy is recognized for producing the best of the best of Nazi officers and Friedrich sees his training as a means to escape his life of poverty. As the brutality of the academy and the Nazi party itself is slowly revealed to Friedrich he begins to question whether attending the academy was the right decision.