The Exception (2016)
6/10
The Kaiser in Holland
25 February 2022
Not many people realise The Kaiser outlived Neville Chamberlain. Barry Foster (of all people!) gave a towering performance as him in the TV series 'Fall of Eagles', which ended the day he arrived at his new home in Holland; where the old boy apparently mellowed considerably (in 1937 he actually wrote to Herbert Wilcox to tell him how much he'd enjoyed his recent film about his grandmother).

This fanciful postscript set in 1940 provides the pleasure of seeing Christopher Plummer as the Kaiser in old age, sporting a white beard that makes him look like Don Quixote and portrayed as jolly but indiscreet and with a hair-trigger temper.

According to this account a toad-like Himmler played by Eddie Marsan paid a personal visit to Hoorn after the fall of Holland; at which point it becomes more and more unbelievable by the minute.
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