Six Minutes to Midnight Ending Explained [SPOILER!]

SPOILER ALERT: the following article contains massive spoilers, including the ending. If you have not yet seen the movie, proceed at your own risk, or better, come back to this article later!

In the summer of 1939, influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future-looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.

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Six Minutes to Midnight Video Summary

Six Minutes to Midnight Plot Summary and Synopsis

The movie is set in an Anglo-German girls’ finishing school in 1939, a few days before the World War II outbreak. It is located in the UK, not far from the English Channel, and trains the daughters of high-ranking Nazi officials.

British intelligence plans to prevent their evacuation to their homeland at the beginning of the war, so that to use the girls as valuable prisoners of war.

Thomas Miller, disguised as an English teacher, is dispatched to replace the discovered and missing agent, who is soon revealed to be dead. The longer he stays at the finishing school, the more Thomas is imbued with sympathy for the girls, despite the fact that they are true German patriots and admirers of Hitler.

Miller manages to overhear a conversation between a German agent and a school teacher Ilse Keller, a former member of the German swimming team. She is ordered to prepare the girls for evacuation the next day, and be ready to kill the girls so that they do not remain in the hands of the British in case of failure. Miller hurries to pass this information on to his superior Colonel Smith, but Ilse Keller tracks them down and kills the colonel. Suspicion falls on Miller since no one in the city knows that he is an intelligence officer. He hides from the police for the whole day but gets arrested after all. Captain Drey, who investigates the murder, seems to believe Miller but is in fact a Nazi spy.

Miller is rescued by Drey’s assistant Sergeant Simmons.

Agent Miller reports on the Nazi plans and hurries to the finishing school himself.

It is too late, everyone is gone, but the school headmistress, Miss Rocholl. She is very upset with Ilse’s betrayal and the girls’ disappearance. Together they rush to the place of possible evacuation.

Meanwhile, the British Air Force is preventing a German plane from landing, and Miller and Miss Rocholl get there just in time. Ilse Keller is unable to kill the girls in front of Miss Rocholl.

The Ending

The credits show documentary photos of the boarding house and its students, which probably implies the movie is based on a true story. The fate of the girls is left unknown.

Source: Cooncel.com.