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* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Mieke is heavily pregnant at the end of the film, with the implication that she is carrying Brandt's child.]]

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* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Mieke is heavily pregnant at the end of the film, with the implication that she is carrying Brandt's child.child, crowning the happy ending of them both escaping unharmed.]]
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* RegalRuff: Wilhelm might no longer be Emperor, but he still carries dresses the part (obvious from his closet supply), especially in front of guests and his Wehrmacht bodyguards.
* LaResistance: Mieke and the local pastor in a nearby village both are with the Dutch resistance. He has a radio trasnmitter to communicate with the British, she's in the household of the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm.

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* RegalRuff: Wilhelm might no longer be Emperor, but he still carries dresses the part (obvious from his closet supply), especially in front of guests and his Wehrmacht bodyguards.
* LaResistance: Mieke and the local pastor in a nearby village both are with the Dutch resistance. He has a radio trasnmitter transmitter to communicate with the British, she's in the household of the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm.
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''The Exception'' is a 2016 romantic war drama directed by David Leveaux about the remaining years of Wilhelm II, the last [[TheEmperor Kaiser]] of UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany.

A war-scarred German officer by the name of Stefan Brandt (Creator/JaiCourtney) tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the elegant home of Kaiser [[UsefulNotes/PrussianKings Wilhelm II]] (Creator/ChristopherPlummer) in UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands during the onset of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman (Creator/LilyJames) during his investigation. As the story progresses, Brandt is forced to re-examine his loyalties and make a fateful decision.

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''The Exception'' is a 2016 romantic war drama directed by David Leveaux about the remaining final years of Wilhelm II, UsefulNotes/WilhelmII, the last [[TheEmperor Kaiser]] of UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany.

A war-scarred German officer by the name of Stefan Brandt (Creator/JaiCourtney) tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the elegant home of Kaiser [[UsefulNotes/PrussianKings Wilhelm II]] II (Creator/ChristopherPlummer) in UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands during the onset of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman (Creator/LilyJames) during his investigation. As the story progresses, Brandt is forced to re-examine his loyalties and make a fateful decision.
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A war-scarred German officer by the name of Stefan Brandt (Creator/JaiCourtney) tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the elegant home of Kaiser Wilhelm II (Creator/ChristopherPlummer) in UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands during the onset of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman (Creator/LilyJames) during his investigation. As the story progresses, Brandt is forced to re-examine his loyalties and make a fateful decision.

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A war-scarred German officer by the name of Stefan Brandt (Creator/JaiCourtney) tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the elegant home of Kaiser [[UsefulNotes/PrussianKings Wilhelm II II]] (Creator/ChristopherPlummer) in UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands during the onset of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman (Creator/LilyJames) during his investigation. As the story progresses, Brandt is forced to re-examine his loyalties and make a fateful decision.
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* MsFanservice: Mieke de Jong, an attractive looking Dutch Jewish maid who strips naked in one of her first scenes and then has sex with Stefan Brandt multiple times. Both her breasts and her backside get long shots. She's very beautiful, portrayed by Lily James.

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* MsFanservice: Mieke de Jong, an attractive looking Dutch Jong is a lovely Jewish maid who strips naked in one of her first scenes and then has sex with Stefan Brandt multiple times. Both her breasts and her backside get long shots. She's very beautiful, portrayed played by Lily James.the beautiful Creator/LilyJames.
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* IChooseToStay: Brandt reveals that Mieke's spy contact has been revealed, yet she stays in her determination to kill Himmler.
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* TheDragon: ''Reichsführer-SS'' Heinrich Himmler, is described as Hitler's right-hand man.

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* TheDragon: ''Reichsführer-SS'' Heinrich Himmler, Himmler is described as Hitler's right-hand man.
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* DoYouWantToCopulate: Not in so many words, but Brandt bluntly asks Mieke to undress while she's in his quarters, which she does with the obvious implication. She then has sex with him just as willingly. He later suspects it's due to her being a spy with the Dutch resistance who [[HoneyTrap believed this would be useful given that he's a German officer]], though she denies it.

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* DoYouWantToCopulate: Not in so many words, but Brandt bluntly asks Mieke to undress while she's in his quarters, which she does with the obvious implication. She then has sex with him just as willingly. He later then suspects it's due to her being a spy with the Dutch resistance who [[HoneyTrap believed this would be useful given that he's a German officer]], though she denies it.
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* DeceptionNoncompliance: Brandt must go along with an SS deception that Hitler will allow Wilhelm to return to the throne. It's all a ruse to weed out monarchists in the Reich.

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* DeceptionNoncompliance: Brandt must go along with an SS deception that Hitler will allow Wilhelm to return to the throne. It's all a ruse to weed out monarchists in the Reich. He passes information about it to Mieke however, his lover who's in the Dutch resistance, while it appears that he's carrying out his duties to hunt her down.
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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: The Gestapo torture the pastor who's in the Dutch resistance for information when he's captured. He eventually does give them Mieke, his accomplice.


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* LaResistance: Mieke and the local pastor in a nearby village both are with the Dutch resistance. He has a radio trasnmitter to communicate with the British, she's in the household of the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm.

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* BlueBlood: Colonel Sigurd von Ilsemann, Wilhelm's personal assistant.

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* BlueBlood: BlueBlood:
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Colonel Sigurd von Ilsemann, Wilhelm's personal assistant.assistant, is from an aristocratic background like most German ranking officers were then.
** Brandt is also related to the Ludendorffs, another example, on his mother's side (Erich von Ludendorff was one of the generals who led the Germans during the first world war).

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* AmbiguousEnding: We never find out if the two lovers survived the war or if they were ever reunited.
* BabiesEverAfter: Mieke is heavily pregnant at the end of the film, with the implication that she is carrying Brandt's child.

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* AllGermansAreNazis: Definitely not. Brandt is torn between duty to Germany and opposing Nazi antisemitism (first after seeing an SS massacre of Jews in Poland, then having an affair with Jewish woman Mieke). He ends up helping her against the Nazis. Wilhelm as well, despite being somewhat antisemitic, dislikes the Nazis, as does his aide (who mentions how many German Jews fought for Germany in the first world war).
* AmbiguousEnding: We [[spoiler:We never find out if the two lovers survived the war or if they were ever reunited.
reunited.]]
* BabiesEverAfter: Mieke [[spoiler:Mieke is heavily pregnant at the end of the film, with the implication that she is carrying Brandt's child.]]



* BenevolentBoss: Wilhelm is an extremely caring employer to Mieke, viewing her like a daughter.He noticeably overrules anyone who wishes to dismiss her for her affair with Brandt and tells her to be discreet.

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* BenevolentBoss: Wilhelm is an extremely caring employer to Mieke, viewing her like a daughter. He noticeably overrules anyone who wishes to dismiss her for her affair with Brandt and just tells her to be discreet.



* TheCaptain: Stefan Brandt.



* CyanideCapsule: [[spoiler:Mieke has one which she's prepared to bite into if the Gestapo get her. Brands manages to get her away so it's unneeded.]]

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* CyanideCapsule: CyanidePill: [[spoiler:Mieke has one which she's prepared to bite into if the Gestapo get her. Brands manages to get her away so it's unneeded.]]



* HoneyTrap: Brandt suspects this of his lover Mieke after she reveals she's with the Dutch resistance. Particularly it would make sense why Mieke had essentially leapt into sex with him, as he's a German officer. Mieke denies it however.



* LivingMacGuffin: Wilhelm's exile is the center of the story.
* LovedINotHonorMore: Subverted. Brandt is caught between his affections for Mieke and his duty to his country.

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* LivingMacGuffin: Wilhelm's exile is the center of the story.
story, with different factions (German monarchists, the Dutch resistance and Nazis) having their plots around him.
* LovedINotHonorMore: Subverted. {{Subverted}}. Brandt is caught between his affections for Mieke and his duty to his country.country, though he chooses her ultimately.



* {{Revenge}}: Mieke is a Dutch Jew whose husband and father were both murdered by the SS. She naturally wants revenge, and works with the Dutch resistance. After SS chief Heinrich Himmler comes to visit her employer himself, Mieke sees her chance by shooting him, though her superior says not to unless it's approved. This ultimately [[SubvertedTrope doesn't happen though]] since Mieke is exposed, being forced to flee.



* SecretPolice: The Schutzstaffel (aka SS) are Nazi Germany's secret police.
* ShelteredAristocrat: Wilhelm has spent the last 20 years living in exile in Holland. The arrival of the German Army gives him hope.

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* SecretPolice: The Schutzstaffel (aka SS) Geheime Staatspolizei (literally "Secret State Police", aka the Gestapo) are Nazi Germany's secret police.
police, who serve as the main antagonists in the film.
* ShelteredAristocrat: Wilhelm has spent the last 20 years living in exile in Holland. The arrival of the German Army gives him hope. His wife says, given his very wealthy background as the former emperor of Germany, he knows little of money and doesn't realize just how reliant they are on the German government, which gives them a pension (that could be taken away at any time).



* ThereIsAGod: "Perhaps God hasn't forgotten me, after all."

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* ThereIsAGod: Wilhelm says "Perhaps God hasn't forgotten me, after all."" when he's {{offered the crown}} of Germany once again, after previously having speculated there were inscrutable divine reasons behind his misfortunes.



* WhatsUpKingDude: Wilhelm is very friendly to Mieke, Captain Brandt and anyone who will listen.

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* ActionGirl: Mieke it turns out is a Dutch resistance fighter, with a pistol she hid in her room she's very willing to use. She doesn't end up doing so, but is nonetheless a courageous spy who gathers information on the Germans at the risk of her own life.



* CoolOldGuy: Wilhelm is pretty cool in regards to Brandt and Mieke's affair. He just wants them to be a bit more discreet.

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* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Brandt anxiously lights up a cigarette on learning Mieke's fellow Resistance fighter, a pastor, has been arrested and is being tortured for information by the Gestapo, knowing it's only a matter of time until he names her as a result.
* CoolOldGuy: Wilhelm is pretty cool in regards to Brandt and Mieke's affair.affair, admitting he had multiple affairs himself many years ago, even fathering children with his mistresses. He just wants them to be a bit more discreet.



* CyanideCapsule: [[spoiler:Mieke has one which she's prepared to bite into if the Gestapo get her. Brands manages to get her away so it's unneeded.]]



* TheDragon: ''Reichsführer-SS'' Heinrich Himmler.

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* DoYouWantToCopulate: Not in so many words, but Brandt bluntly asks Mieke to undress while she's in his quarters, which she does with the obvious implication. She then has sex with him just as willingly. He later suspects it's due to her being a spy with the Dutch resistance who [[HoneyTrap believed this would be useful given that he's a German officer]], though she denies it.
* TheDragon: ''Reichsführer-SS'' Heinrich Himmler.Himmler, is described as Hitler's right-hand man.



* {{Fanservice}}: The sex scenes between Mieke and Stefan. To be expected since both are played by very good looking people.



* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Brandt and Mieke have sex against a table in his quarters the first time (but he stops as his combat wound is hurting).
* MaleFrontalNudity: Brandt strips after Mieke asks him to, echoing his earlier request of her, and is naked from the front in a long shot.
* MalignedMixedMarriage: It's unstated, but Brandt clearly knows that he and Mieke can never openly be together under Nazi rule, given he's an "Aryan" while she's Jewish. He carries on their affair anyway however (indeed, the Nazis made sex between "Aryans" and Jews a crime punishable by death, called "race defilement"). [[spoiler:The ending implies they may manage to end up happily together with their baby after the war's end, though it's uncertain.]]
* ModestyBedsheet: Mieke has a blanket around her chest post-coitus with Brandt once. It's {{downplayed}} however as in other scenes she does show extensive nudity before and after having sex with him.



* MsFanservice: Mieke de Jong, an attractive looking Dutch Jewish maid who has sex with Stefan Brandt. It also helps that she is portrayed by Lily James.

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* MsFanservice: Mieke de Jong, an attractive looking Dutch Jewish maid who strips naked in one of her first scenes and then has sex with Stefan Brandt. It also helps that she is Brandt multiple times. Both her breasts and her backside get long shots. She's very beautiful, portrayed by Lily James.James.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Brandt wrestles with this, as a soldier in the German Wehrmacht. He feels that it's his duty to obey orders and serve, though he's against the antisemitic atrocities. Brandt tries to tell himself that most Germans in Nazi service aren't like that. His Jewish lover Mieke, though, convinces him that he's [[TitleDrop the exception]], while most aren't. [[spoiler:As a result, he accedes to helping Mieke strike at the Nazis, coming to believe that it's best for his country instead of serving an evil government.]]


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* SlutShaming: Hermine says Mieke is a common slut when she's caught with Brandt in her room, and must be dismissed from their service. At least she's even-handed enough to say Brandt disgraced his uniform doing this too.
* SmokingHotSex: After they have sex once, Mieke and Brandt smoke the same cigarette together.
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* WhenHarryMetSvetlana: Mieke is a widowed Jew spying on behalf of the UK and Captain Brandt is a German officer.

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* WhenHarryMetSvetlana: Mieke is a widowed Jew spying on behalf of the UK and Captain Brandt is a German officer.officer.
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''The Exception'' is a 2016 romantic war drama directed by David Leveaux about the remaining years of deposed German [[TheEmperor Kaiser]] Wilhelm II.

A war-scarred German officer by the name of Stefan Brandt (Creator/JaiCourtney) tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the elegant home of Kaiser Wilhelm (Creator/ChristopherPlummer) in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman (Creator/LilyJames) during his investigation. As the story progresses, Brandt is forced to re-examine his loyalties and make a fateful decision.

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''The Exception'' is a 2016 romantic war drama directed by David Leveaux about the remaining years of deposed German Wilhelm II, the last [[TheEmperor Kaiser]] Wilhelm II.

of UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany.

A war-scarred German officer by the name of Stefan Brandt (Creator/JaiCourtney) tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the elegant home of Kaiser Wilhelm II (Creator/ChristopherPlummer) in Holland UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands during the onset of World War II, UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman (Creator/LilyJames) during his investigation. As the story progresses, Brandt is forced to re-examine his loyalties and make a fateful decision. \n
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[[caption-width-right:250:Love and resistance.]]

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* CoolOldGuy: Wilhelm is pretty cool in regards to Brandt and Mieke's affair. He just wants them to be a bit more discreet.
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* MrFanservice: Stefan Brandt, a handsome, muscular German officer played by Jai Courtney.

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* MrFanservice: Stefan Brandt, a handsome, muscular German officer who gets several sex scenes, played by Jai Courtney.Courtney. There's even some MaleFrontalNudity.

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* {{Fanservice}}: The sex scenes between Mieke and Stefan. It also helps that Mieke is played by Creator/LilyJames.

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* {{Fanservice}}: The sex scenes between Mieke and Stefan. It also helps that Mieke is To be expected since both are played by Creator/LilyJames.very good looking people.


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* MrFanservice: Stefan Brandt, a handsome, muscular German officer played by Jai Courtney.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Love [[caption-width-right:250:Love and resistance.]]



A German officer (Creator/JaiCourtney) tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm (Creator/ChristopherPlummer) in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman (Creator/LilyJames) during his investigation.

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A war-scarred German officer by the name of Stefan Brandt (Creator/JaiCourtney) tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the elegant home of Kaiser Wilhelm (Creator/ChristopherPlummer) in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman (Creator/LilyJames) during his investigation.investigation. As the story progresses, Brandt is forced to re-examine his loyalties and make a fateful decision.



* AdaptationalCurves: Brandt is supposed to have seen combat, and was severely injured by shrapnel and spent a long time recovering from his wounds. It's highly unlikely that he would have had Jai Courtney's well fed, extremely buff physique after going through those experiences.

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* AdaptationalCurves: Brandt is supposed to have seen combat, and was severely injured by shrapnel and spent a long time recovering from his wounds. It's highly unlikely that he would have had Jai Courtney's well fed, extremely buff physique after going through those harrowing experiences.



* BenevolentBoss: WIlhelm is an extremely caring employer to Mieke, viewing her like a daughter.He noticeably overrules anyone who wishes to dismiss her for her affair with Brandt and tells her to be discreet.

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* BenevolentBoss: WIlhelm Wilhelm is an extremely caring employer to Mieke, viewing her like a daughter.He noticeably overrules anyone who wishes to dismiss her for her affair with Brandt and tells her to be discreet.
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* AdaptationalCurves: Brandt is supposed to have seen combat, and was severely injured by shrapnel and spent a long time recovering from his wounds. It's highly unlikely that he would have had Jai Courtney's well fed, extremely buff physique after going through those experiences.

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