Captain America: The First Avenger is a 2011 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures, it is the fifth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Joe Johnston, written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and stars Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Toby Jones, Neal McDonough, Derek Luke, and Stanley Tucci. During World War II, Steve Rogers, a frail man, is transformed into the super-soldier Captain America and must stop the Red Skull (Weaving) from using the Tesseract as an energy source for world domination.
The film began as a concept in 1997 and was scheduled for distribution by Artisan Entertainment. However, a lawsuit disrupted the project and was not settled until September 2003. In 2005, Marvel Studios received a loan from Merrill Lynch, and planned to finance and release the film through Paramount Pictures. Directors Jon Favreau and Louis Leterrier were interested in directing the project before Johnston was approached in 2008. The principal characters were cast between March and June 2010. Production began in June, and filming took place in London, Manchester, Caerwent, Liverpool, and Los Angeles. Several different techniques were used by the visual effects company Lola to create the physical appearance of the character before he becomes Captain America.
Captain America: The First Avenger premiered at the El Capitan Theatre on July 19, 2011, and was released in the United States on July 22, as part of Phase One of the MCU. The film was commercially successful, grossing over $370 million worldwide. Critics particularly praised Evans' performance, the film's depiction of its 1940s time period, and Johnston's direction. Two sequels have been released: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Captain America: Civil War (2016).
Cast[]
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Captain America / Steve Rogers | Chris Evans | JoséAntonio Macías | Yûichi Nakamura | Clécio Souto | Alexandre Fortin | Dennis SchmidtFoß | Maël DavanSoulas | Marco Vivio | Paweł Ciołkosz | Soma Zámbori | Raúl Llorens | Im Chae-heon | Joy Sengupta | Rüzgar Aksoy | Sanket Mhatre |
 
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Red Skull / Johann Schmidt | Hugo Weaving | Humberto Solórzano | Kazuhiro Yamaji | Hélio Ribeiro | Sylvain Hétu | Hans-Jürgen Wolf | Féodor Atkine | Carlo Cosolo | Jacek Lenartowicz | Sándor Rosta | Abel Folk | Mohan Kapoor | Cem Kurtoğlu | Mohan Kapoor | |
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James "Bucky"Barnes | Sebastian Stan | Irwin Daayán | Mitsuru Shiraishi | Marcos Souza | NicholasSavard L'Herbier | Björn Schalla | Axel Kiener | Emiliano Coltorti | Marcin Hycnar | Dániel Hamvas | David Jenner | Manish Wadhwa | Sercan Gidişoğlu | ||
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Margaret "Peggy"Carter | Hayley Atwell | Christine Byrd | Mie Sonozaki | Evie Saide | Catherine Proulx-Lemay | Berenice Weichert | France Renard | Ilaria Latini | Maria Pawłowska | Móni Balsai | Graciela Molina | Anju B Jamwal | Selen Öztürk | ||
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Colonel ChesterPhillips | Tommy Lee Jones | Blas García | Takashi Taniguchi | Júlio Chaves | Éric Gaudry | Ronald Nitschke | Yves Rénier | Saverio Moriones | Jerzy Radziwiłowicz | Ádám Rajhona | JuanAntonio Gálvez | BrijBhushan Sawhney | Nüvit Candaner | Dilip Sinha | |
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Howard Stark | Dominic Cooper | HéctorEmmanuel Gómez | Hirofumi Nojima | Cláudio Galvan | Claude Gagnon | Timmo Niesner | Tony Marot | Francesco Pezzulli | Krzysztof Szczepaniak | Kornél Simon | Manuel Gimeno | Lee Donghoon | Kunal Pandit | Emrullah Uzun | Samuya Daan |
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Dr. Abraham Erskine | Stanley Tucci | Pedro D'Aguillón Jr. | Yōhei Tadano | Alexandre Moreno | Jacques Lavallée | Lutz Mackensy | Bernard Alane | Luca Biagini | Krzysztof Dracz | Imre Józsa | Pep Antón Muñoz | Vinod Kulkarni | Vinod Kulkarni | ||
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Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan | Neal McDonough | Gerardo Reyero | Tomoyuki Shimura | Mauro Ramos | Antoine Durand | Johannes Berenz | Bruno Dubernat | Nino D'Agata | Damian Aleksander | Róbert Kardos | Domenech Farell | Kwon Changwook | Anup Shukla | Oğuz Toydemir | |
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Gabe Jones | Derek Luke | Armando Coria | Kenji Nomura | Rodrigo Oliveira | Widemir Normil | Marcel Collé | JeanBaptiste Anoumon | Carlo Scipioni | Michał Sitarski | Péter Galambos | José Luis Mediavilla | Aaditya Raj Sharma | Lori Barokas | ||
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Jim Morita | Kenneth Choi | Ricardo Mendoza | Daichi Endô | José Leonardo | Pierre Auger | Gerald Schaale | Stéphane Miquel | Wojciech Brzeziński | Attila Szatmári | Eduard Doncos | Erol Özdemir | ||||
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Montgomery Falsworth | JJ Feild | José Luis Rivera | Atsushi Miyauchi | Ricardo Schnetzer | Daniel Picard | Dirk Bublies | Erico Di Troia | Modest Ruciński | Balázs Dévai | Carlos Di Blasi | Hong Jin-wook | Kishore Bhatt | Savaş Pat | ||
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Dr. Arnim Zola | Toby Jones | Eduardo Tejedo | Mutsumi Sasaki | Marcelo Coutinho | François Sasseville | Lutz Schnell | Franck Capillery | Marco Guadagno | Piotr Bajor | János Háda | Pep Sais | Kim Ki-chul | Ramesh Tiwari | Emrah Akşık | |
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Heinz Kruger | Richard Armitage | Enrique Cervantes | Yoshihisa Kawahara | Marcelo Coutinho | Sascha Rotermund | Alessandro Budroni | Oskar Hamerski | Tamás Széles | Toni Mora | Aaditya Raj Sharma | Fatih Er | ||||
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Michael Duffy | Damon Driver | Arturo Cataño | Michael Iwannek | Janusz Wituch | Luis García Márquez | Didem Atlıhan | |||||||||
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Private Lorraine | Natalie Dormer | Dulce Guerrero | Toa Yukinari | Márcia Coutinho | Bianca Gervais | Giuliana Jakobeit | Carmen Iovine | Weronika Humaj | Anna Peller | Ana Aznárez | |||||
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Senator Brand | Michael Brandon | Paco Mauri | Manzô Wowari | Walmir Barbosa | René Gagnon | Jan Spitzer | Michel Bedetti | Michele Gammino | Marek Barbasiewicz | Sándor Sörös | Claudi García | ||||
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Roeder | Anatole Taubman | Eduardo Giaccardi | Sérgio Stern | Uwe Jellinek | Mateusz Weber | ||||||||||
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Schneider | Erich Redman | Germán Fabregat | Isaac Schneider | Michael Bauer | Robert T. Majewski | ||||||||||
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4F Doctor | Simon Kunz | Martín Soto | Carlos Gesteira | Erich Räuker | JoséAntonio Jiménez | ||||||||||
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Church Keeper | David Bradley | Humberto Vélez | Jin Urayama | Isaac Bardavid | Uli Krohm | Dante Biagioni | Stefan Knothe | Vilmos Izsóf | Hans Richter | ||||||
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Antique Store Owner | Amanda Walker | María Santander | Nina Herting | Elżbieta Gaertner | Marta Padován | ||||||||||
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Loud Jerk | Kieran O'Connor | Moisés Iván Mora | |||||||||||||
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Connie | Jenna Coleman | Gaby Ugarte | Mai Yamane | Andrea Suhett | Nadine Zaddam | Olga Kalicka | Kata Gáspár | ||||||||
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Bonnie | Sophie Colquhoun | ||||||||||||||
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AutographSeeker (MeredithQuill) | Laura Haddock | Cecilia Gómez | |||||||||||||
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Project Rebirth Nurse | Katherine Press | Mireya Mendoza | |||||||||||||
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Nick Fury | Samuel L. Jackson | Gerardo Vásquez | Hideaki Tezuka | Márcio Simões | Benoît Rousseau | Engelbert VonNordhausen | Thierry Desroses | Paolo Buglioni | Krzysztof Stelmaszyk | Gábor Vass | Miguel Ángel Jenner | Kim Ki-hyun | Hakan Vanlı | Shakti Singh | |
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S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent (Code 13) | Amanda Righetti | Marisol Romero | Kanako Tôjô | Marcela Duarte | Katrin Zimmermann | Ewa Prus | Gloria Cano | ||||||||
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General | Stan Lee | Jesse Conde | LuizSérgio Navarro | Klaus Lochthove | Stefan Knothe | Imre Szalai | Eduardo Muntada | ||||||||
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Gilmore Hodge | Lex Shrapnel | Tomoyuki Higuchi | Jaron Löwenberg | Rafał Zawierucha | Dániel Papp | Rafael Parra | |||||||||
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Adolf Hitler | James Payton | ||||||||||||||
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Hutter | Jan Pohl | Patric Tavanti | Mateusz Kwiecień | ||||||||||||
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Velt | Patrick Monckeberg | ||||||||||||||
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HYDRA Lieutenant | Peter Stark | Oliver Betke | |||||||||||||
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Jacques Dernier | Bruno Ricci | Shinya Fukumatsu | Bruno Ricci | Bruno Ricci | |||||||||||
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Jan | Marek Oravec | ||||||||||||||
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Brandt's Aide | Martin T. Sherman | Stéphane Rivard | Hendrik Martz | Olivier Chauvel | Maciej Wyczański | ||||||||||
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Search Team Leader | Oscar Pearce | Eduardo Garza | Tomasz Jarosz | Pablo Gómez | |||||||||||
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S.H.I.E.L.D. Lieutenant | William Hope | Andreas Hosang | Michał Podsiadło | Ramón Rocabayera | |||||||||||
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S.H.I.E.L.D. Tech | Nicholas Pinnock | Christoph Banken | |||||||||||||
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Barman | Leander Deeny | Steven Merting | Tomasz Olejnik | ||||||||||||
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Nervous Recruit | Sam Hoare | ||||||||||||||
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Young Doctor | Doug Cockle | ||||||||||||||
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Enlistment Office MP | Ben Batt | ||||||||||||||
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Stark Girl | Mollie Fitzgerald | Franca Orlia | |||||||||||||
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Johan Schmidt's Artist | David McKail | ||||||||||||||
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Kruger's Driver | Fabrizio Santino | ||||||||||||||
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Boy at Dock | Maxwell Newman | ||||||||||||||
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Kid in USO Audience 1 | Megan Sanderson | ||||||||||||||
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Newsstand Mom | Fernanda Toker |
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