Six Minutes to Midnight

A story based on real events

Movies Drama History
99 min     6.3     2020     United Kingdom

Overview

British gentleman with German roots Thomas Miller (Eddie Izzard) gets a job in a one-of-a-kind German girls' school. It is located on the south coast of England, where the daughters of high-ranking Nazis study. Under the supervision of Headmistress Miss Rocholl (Judi Dench) and her assistant Ilse Keller (Carla Juri), the girls practice their English and learn to become the embodiment of the ideals of Nazi Germany.

This time Andy Goddard, director of Downton Abbey, tells a story based on real events. While Europe is covered with storm clouds, girls at school live in their own closed world. They read Shakespeare, learn to behave in society, play sports, and listen to Hitler's speeches with admiration in the evenings. They still do not know the horrors of war and fear of the future. They are on the verge of growing up, not suspecting that they will have to say goodbye to their carelessness.

As a new war approaches, the summer of the girls' youth is coming to an end. This serene summertime has become a farewell not only for the schoolchildren, but for the whole of Europe. The director shows the days before the start of the war: the sounds of bombs are not heard yet, but the danger is already hovering in the peaceful air.

The world wars of the twentieth century are still sore subjects for many countries, and recently filmmakers have begun to look at these chapters of history from a different, unusual perspective.

The lovers of cinema based on real stories will definitely like this movie. After all, the school in which the girls studied was unique in its kind, and the events that determined their fate reveal the last pages of Europe in the collapsing world in the best possible way.

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