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A German soldier 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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* 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.
* 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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* PlaguedByNightmares: Brandt has recurring nightmares of a civilian massacre perpetrated by the SS in Poland, and feels guilty he could not save a little girl who had survived the initial onslaught of bullets.
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* TruthInTelevision: Early in the beginning of the war, the Wehrmacht did indeed ''despise'' the Einsatzgruppen of the SS, considered them cowards for shooting unarmed civilians and called for their disbandment. It didn't last unfortunately, but Brandt's reaction to the SS crimes is perfectly plausible.
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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 tells her to be discreet.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Wilhelm has a hell of a sharp tongue and dry wit, commenting he was once engaged in an affair with a countess and a prostitute. Both blackmailed him. He remarks he expected better only of the prostitute.
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A German soldier (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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* BlueBlood: Colonel Sigurd von Ilsemann, Wilhelm's personnel assistant.
* CannotKeepASecret: Wilhelm receives news that is might be Emperor again. He and his wife agrees to keep to themselves...only for both of them to tell their personal assistants...
* TheCaptain: Stefan Brandt
* CannotKeepASecret: Wilhelm receives news that is might be Emperor again. He and his wife agrees to keep to themselves...only for both of them to tell their personal assistants...
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* BlueBlood: Colonel Sigurd von Ilsemann, Wilhelm's personnel personal assistant.
* CannotKeepASecret: Wilhelm receives news thatis he might be become Emperor again. He and his wife agrees agree to keep the information to themselves...themselves... only for both of them to tell their personal assistants...
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* DeceptionNoncompliance: Brandt must go with a 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 a 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.
* TheDragon: ''Reichsführer-SS'' HeinrichHimmler Himmler.
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* HairTriggerTemper: Wilhelm has a short temper, understandable after more than twenty years of being blamed for Germany's previous misfortunes that weren't entirely his fault and having a crippled left arm his whole life. His adjutant Sigfurd and his wife are worried that Wilhelm's temper exploding at [[TheDragon Heinrich Himmler]], head of the SS, will get him killed. They know this because Hitler had the former German chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and his wife killed in the Night of the Long Knives in 1934.
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* HairTriggerTemper: Wilhelm has a short temper, understandable after more than twenty years of being blamed for Germany's previous misfortunes that weren't entirely his fault and having a crippled left arm his whole life. His adjutant Sigfurd Sigurd and his wife are worried that Wilhelm's temper exploding at [[TheDragon Heinrich Himmler]], head of the SS, will get him killed. They know this because Hitler had the former German chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and his wife killed in the Night of the Long Knives in 1934.
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* IgnoreTheDisability: When being introduced to the Kaiser, Brand is informed of Wilhelm's crippled left arm and told to not discuss it or look at it. When Wilhelm was born, a breech birth resulted in Erb's palsy, which left him with a nearly-paralyzed withered left arm about six inches shorter than his right. His left hand could still be used, as his left hand is seen gripping a bag of bread, it was just less useful than his right.
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* IgnoreTheDisability: When being introduced to the Kaiser, Brand Brandt is informed of Wilhelm's crippled left arm and told to not discuss it or look at it. When Wilhelm was born, a breech birth resulted in Erb's palsy, which left him with a nearly-paralyzed withered left arm about six inches shorter than his right. His left hand could still be used, as his left hand is seen gripping a bag of bread, it was just less useful than his right.
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* {{Fanservice}}: The nude scenes between Mieke and Wilhelm II. It also helps that Mieke is played by Creator/LilyJames.
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* 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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* {{Fanservice}}: The nude scenes between Mieke and Wilhelm II. It also helps that Mieke is played by Creator/LilyJames.
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[[caption-width-right:184:Make love not war.]]
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* HairTriggerTemper: Wilhelm has a short temper, understandable after more than twenty years of being blamed for things he thinks weren't his fault and having a crippled left his whole life. His adjutant Sigfurd and his wife are worried that Wilhelm's temper exploding at [[TheDragon Heinrich Himmler]], head of the SS, will get him killed. They know this because Hitler had the former German chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and his wife killed in the Night of the Long Knives in 1934.
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* HairTriggerTemper: Wilhelm has a short temper, understandable after more than twenty years of being blamed for things he thinks Germany's previous misfortunes that weren't entirely his fault and having a crippled left arm his whole life. His adjutant Sigfurd and his wife are worried that Wilhelm's temper exploding at [[TheDragon Heinrich Himmler]], head of the SS, will get him killed. They know this because Hitler had the former German chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and his wife killed in the Night of the Long Knives in 1934.
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* OfferedTheCrown: Twice. Wilhelm is offered his throne back by both Himmler (though this is a ruse to weed out monarchists) and by UK's Churchill.
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* TitleDrop: "[[SecretPolice They]] are the rule. You are The Exception."
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* DeceptionNoncompliance: Brandt must go with a 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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* ThereIsAGod: "Perhaps God hasn't forgotten me, after all."
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* CannotKeepASecret: Wilhelm receives news that is might be Emperor again. He and his wife agrees to keep to themselves...only for both of them to tell their personal assistants...
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* CrapsackWorld: Brandt's father died before he was born in World War I, the Great Depression rendered his mother's money worthless and she died when Brandt was 12. He serves it. And worse, he has to [[LovedINotHonorMore choose between love and duty]].
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* CrapsackWorld: Brandt's father died before he was born in World War I, the Great Depression rendered his mother's money worthless and she died when Brandt was 12. He serves it. And worse, Hitler. Oh and he has to [[LovedINotHonorMore choose between love and duty]].
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* CrapsackWorld: Brandt's father died before he was born in World War I, the Great Depression rendered his mother's money worthless and she died when Brandt was 12. He serves it. And worse, he has to [[LovedINotHonorMore choose between love and duty]].
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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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* LovedINotHonorMore: Subverted. Brandt is caught between his affections for Mieke and his duty to his country.
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* TheDragon: ''Reichsführer-SS'' Heinrich Himmler
* RansackedRoom: The Germans search the entire house the day before Hitler's SS chief Heinrich Himmler comes.
* SecretPolice: The Schutzstaffel (aka SS) are Nazi Germany's secret police.
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* WhatsUpKingDude: Wilhelm is very friendly to Mieke, Captain Brandt and anyone who will listen.listen.
* WhenHarryMetSvetlana: Mieke is a widowed Jew spying on behalf of the UK and Captain Brandt is a German officer.
* WhenHarryMetSvetlana: Mieke is a widowed Jew spying on behalf of the UK and Captain Brandt is a German officer.
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* StillTheLeader: Wilhelm reminds his wife that he makes the decision of the Huis Doorn household.
-->'''Wilhelm:''' I may not rule in Germany, but, by Christ, I rule in my own house!
-->'''Wilhelm:''' I may not rule in Germany, but, by Christ, I rule in my own house!
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-->'''Sigfurd:''' [[AC: [[TheEmperor Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht von Preussen]] and his wife, Princess Hermine Reuss von Greiz.]]
-->'''Sigfurd:''' [[AC: [[TheEmperor Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht von Preussen]] and his wife, Princess Hermine Reuss von Greiz.]]
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* BanOnPolitics: Before being introduced to the former Kaiser, Captain Brandt is told by Sigurd ground rules about how to conduct himself, including to avoid discussion of politics.
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* LivingMacGuffin: Wilhelm's exile is the center of the story.
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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.
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*BlueBlood: Colonel Sigurd von Ilsemann, Wilhelm's personnel assistant.
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* NaziNobleman: Wilhelm's wife and staff are hopeful that Hitler or someone in the Nazi government in Berlin will bring about the restoration of the monarchy and give Wilhelm his thrown back and actively collaborate with the German military/SS.
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* 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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* ShelteredAristocrat: Wilhelm has spent the last 20 years living in exile in Holland. The arrival of the German Army gives him hope.hope.
*WhatsUpKingDude: Wilhelm is very friendly to Mieke, Captain Brandt and anyone who will listen.
*WhatsUpKingDude: Wilhelm is very friendly to Mieke, Captain Brandt and anyone who will listen.
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*AbdicateTheThrone: In 1918, after Germany was forced to surrender in World War I, Wilhelm II abdicated the throne and fled into exile in Holland.
*TheEmperor: Wilhelm II was the Emperor (Kaiser) of the German Empire from 1888-1918 until the shame of the defeat of World War I caused him to abdicate and flee to Holland.
*NaziNobleman: Wilhelm's wife and staff are hopeful that Hitler or someone in the Nazi government in Berlin will bring about the restoration of the monarchy and give Wilhelm his thrown back and actively collaborate with the German military/SS.
*RichesToRags: Wilhelm II was once a powerful emperor of Germany but now is living in shamed exile. He still has money and uniforms (so less rags), but he is but a shadow of his former glory.
*RulingFamilyMassacre: Wilhelm mentions to Mieke that his cousin Ella, [[RoyalInbreeding his first love]], and her Imperial Russian family were murdered by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War.
*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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*AbdicateTheThrone: In 1918, after Germany was forced to surrender in World War I, Wilhelm II abdicated the throne and fled into exile in Holland.
*TheEmperor: Wilhelm II was the Emperor (Kaiser) of the German Empire from 1888-1918 until the shame of the defeat of World War I caused him to abdicate and flee to Holland.
*NaziNobleman: Wilhelm's wife and staff are hopeful that Hitler or someone in the Nazi government in Berlin will bring about the restoration of the monarchy and give Wilhelm his thrown back and actively collaborate with the German military/SS.
*RichesToRags: Wilhelm II was once a powerful emperor of Germany but now is living in shamed exile. He still has money and uniforms (so less rags), but he is but a shadow of his former glory.
*RulingFamilyMassacre: Wilhelm mentions to Mieke that his cousin Ella, [[RoyalInbreeding his first love]], and her Imperial Russian family were murdered by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War.
*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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