Captain America - Heinz Kruger

Captain America: The First Avenger (movie) - Heinz Kruger (2011)

I play a character called Heinz Kruger, who works for Hydra. He’s an operative and he’s sent in to sabotage the experiment, which Dr. Erskine is doing on this, this boy. I don’t think knows a great deal about it, but he knows that he has to get the serum and eliminate any possibility that that serum will ever be created again on American soil. He’s managed to infiltrate the State Department as an American called Fred Clemson and he’s in the observation lab as the experiment’s taking place.
(Captain America – July 2011, Trailer Addict)

Captain America is one in the series of Marvel Comics movies. It was released in Los Angeles, with a Red Carpet screening on 19 July 2011. It opened, officially, in the US on 22 July 2011, UK on 29 July 2011 and Australia on 28 July 2011.

I mean, it's, it's one of those gifts when you work on a film ... when you work with an art department as brilliant as these guys are, it, it's sort of 60% of the, of the work in kind of stimulating your imagination. (Epix News, The Reverse Angle, July 7, 2011)

It’s great to play, to play a bad guy, but I really tried not to see him as a bad guy. I wanted him to be … I wanted him to be human, and I wanted him to be the kind of spy that had a moral conscience so he’s not just a tool, he’s actually … he really believes that he’s fighting for the Fatherland. (Trailer Addict, July16, 2011)

I, I think … it’s very easy to say that most people that operated in this period didn’t really know what was going on right at the center, and that’s probably true, but I think that everyone has to have a real moral compass and really desire to do the right thing for their own country, and I wanted him to be more like that than somebody that just … that believed he was bad. (Trailer Addict, July16, 2011)

... I think that everyone has to have a real moral compass and really desire to do the right thing for their own country ... (Trailer Addict, July16, 2011)

Production details

Cast
Steve Rogers/Captain America - Chris Evans
Peggy Carter - Hayley Atwell
Colonel Chester Phillips - Tommy Lee Jones
Johann Schmidt / Red Skull - Hugo Weaving
Dr. Abraham Erskine - Dr Abraham Erskine
Heinz Kruger - Richard Armitage
Dr. Arnim Zola - Toby Jones
Timothy 'Dum Dum' Dugan - Neal McDonough
James Montgomery Falsworth - JJ Field
James Buchanan 'Bucky' Barnes - Sebastian Stan
Howard Stark - Dominic Cooper
Gabe Jones - Derek Luke
Jim Morita - Kenneth Choi
Jacques Dernier - Bruno Ricci

Director
Joe Jackson

Writers
Christopher Markus (Screenplay)
Stephen McFeely (Screenplay)
Joe Simon (comic books)
Jack Kirby (comic books)

DVD/Blu-ray release

CADVD

Region 1 dvds/blu-ray can be purchased through Amazon.com

Region 2 dvd/blu-ray is due for release in the UK in early December, 2011 and is available for pre-order from Amazon.co.uk.

Region 4 dvd/blu-ray is due for release in early December, 2011 and is available for pre-order from Ezy DVD.