The Exception (2016) quotes

Director
David Leveaux.

Cast
Christopher Plummer.
Lily James.
Jai Courtney.

A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.

Is something wrong?
– Kaiser Wilhelm II
I have to go now, forever. But first I have a message for you. From Winston Churchill.
– Mieke de Jong
Of course you do. You’re the secret agent. Marvelous.
– Kaiser Wilhelm II

Brandt. They are the rule. *You* are the exception.
– Mieke de Jong

What do you think of him, our Captain Brandt?
– Kaiser Wilhelm II
He is a typical, cocky young officer, who thinks he can win the war on his own.
– Col. Sigurd von Ilsemann
Does he remind you of anyone, Sigurd?
– Kaiser Wilhelm II
Not at all.
– Col. Sigurd von Ilsemann

I’m Jewish.
– Mieke de Jong
I’m not.
– Capt. Stefan Brandt
Obviously!
– Mieke de Jong
I don’t care.
– Capt. Stefan Brandt
One day, you might have to.
– Mieke de Jong

I’m ashamed to say that before and after my first marriage I, myself, fathered at least two illegitimate children: one with an Austrian countess, another with a French prostitute who was known in court circles as Madame L’Amour. Both of them, incidentally, blackmailed me for huge sums of money, the Countess and the prostitute. I expected better of the prostitute.
– Kaiser Wilhelm II

I have to go.
– Widow in Hotel
Here. Can I see you again?
– Capt. Stefan Brandt
One telegram from the War Ministry is enough.
– Widow in Hotel

Anyone might think you were spying on me, Captain.
– Kaiser Wilhelm II
Forgive me, Your Highness.
– Capt. Stefan Brandt
What are you doing creeping around in the woods?
– Kaiser Wilhelm II
If anything happens to you, Your Highness, I’ll be shot.
– Capt. Stefan Brandt
Oh, it’s good to know they still care.
– Kaiser Wilhelm II

Can an officer have a loyalty to anything greater than his country?
– Capt. Stefan Brandt
First, he must answer the question “What is my country and does it even still exist?”
– Col. Sigurd von Ilsemann

You have someone, somewhere?
– Capt. Stefan Brandt
If I did, you wouldn’t be here. And you, Captain? No girl anywhere?
– Mieke de Jong
If I did, I’d still be here.
– Capt. Stefan Brandt

What is it this time?
– Mieke de Jong
Poland. A village of women and children. They’d been machine-gunned by the SS. It was a beautiful day. And I thought… “God made this. God made all of it.” There was a girl. She was still alive. I tried to help her, but she died. I beat the officer senseless in front of his unit. It’s men like that, they shame the SS. They shame us all.
– Capt. Stefan Brandt
But they are not the exception, they are the *rule*.
– Mieke de Jong
I don’t believe that.
– Capt. Stefan Brandt