Hermine is overjoyed at the thought of finally becoming Empress of Germany but Wilhelm, troubled by Himmler's boasts about the euthanasia of disabled children, remains unsure – even when Colonel von Ilsemann speaks to him of how Wilhelm can become "a restraining influence." He then meets with Brandt and Dietrich, informing them that the invitation is a bluff, intended to draw out and execute anti-Nazi monarchists. Himmler extends to Wilhelm an invitation from Adolf Hitler to return to his former throne in Berlin. She refuses, insisting that she has a mission. Brandt learns as Himmler is arriving that the tortured pastor will soon reveal Mieke's identity and he urges her to flee. Saying he will not be a hypocrite, the Kaiser orders the lovers to go about their duties, but to be more discreet.ĭuring a planned house search before Himmler's arrival, Brandt himself searches Mieke's room to protect her cover. In private, he reveals to the lovers that he fathered illegitimate children before and after marrying his first wife, Empress Augusta Victoria. She expects her husband to dismiss Mieke and have Brandt court-martialed, but the ex-Kaiser angrily responds that even though he no longer rules Germany, he will rule his own house.
Shortly afterward, Wilhelm's wife Hermine, jealous of Wilhelm's fondness for Mieke, tells him of Brandt and Mieke's affair. They arrest and savagely torture him, demanding the name of the other spy. The SS pinpoints the pastor’s radio transmissions.
The pastor responds that assassinating Himmler is not their mission. He follows Mieke when she visits the village pastor and – watching outside a window – hears her tell the pastor that she is prepared to assassinate Himmler as revenge for the SS having murdered her father and husband. Prior to a visit from SS Commander Heinrich Himmler, Brandt notices a smell of gun oil from Mieke's room. Gestapo Inspector Dietrich informs Brandt that the British Secret Service has an agent with a radio hidden somewhere in a nearby village and orders Brandt to identify the second agent known to be inside the ex-Kaiser's household. While Wilhelm is an elderly man with no power, the SS are aware that he remains a great symbolic importance to the German people.ĭespite the Kaiser's adjutant, Colonel Sigurd von Ilsemann, giving Brandt strict orders not to interfere with the female servants, Brandt is immediately drawn into a passionate affair with Mieke de Jong, one of the maids, who reveals to Brandt that she is Jewish. Nazi authorities are concerned that an Allied spy may be planning to assassinate the former Kaiser. The film was released on 2 October 2017 in the United Kingdom through Signature Entertainment.ĭuring World War II, Wehrmacht Captain Stefan Brandt is assigned to take command of the personal bodyguard of deposed German Emperor Wilhelm II at his estate of Huis Doorn, near Utrecht, Netherlands. The film received a limited release and video-on-demand release on 2 June 2017 through A24 and DirecTV Cinema in the United States. The film held its world premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival in the Special Presentations section.
Principal photography in Belgium lasted six weeks in 2015. In 2014, Egoli Tossell Film announced that development on a film adaptation of Judd's novel had begun. The film is set in Occupied Netherlands during World War II. When a Wehrmacht officer (Courtney) is ordered to determine whether or not a British spy has infiltrated the Kaiser's residence with a view to assassinating the deposed monarch, he falls in love with one of the Kaiser's maids (James) during his investigation.
The plot is a fictionalized account of the life of exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II (Plummer). The film stars Jai Courtney, Lily James, Janet McTeer, and Christopher Plummer. The Exception is a 2016 romantic war film directed by David Leveaux (in his directorial debut) and written by Simon Burke, based on Alan Judd's 2003 novel The Kaiser's Last Kiss.
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