Six Minutes to Midnight

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Release year: 2020

Storyline

UK, Aug. 15, 1939: 17 days before WWII, an English teacher and his camera disappear from a coastal boarding school with 20 German teen girls. Miller gets the job six days later, secretly trying to find out what happened.

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Did you know

• The main plot is loosely inspired in the real-life Augusta Victoria College, located in the also real-life coastal town Bexhill-on-Sea (county of Sussex, in the south-east of England). As in the movie, Augusta Victoria College was a female high school for influential and high ranking Nazi families. Its name refers Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (German: Auguste Viktoria Friederike Luise Feodora Jenny von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg), who was the last empress of Germany. The college opened in 1932 and it was closed in 1939, after the invasion of Poland by Germany that started the World War II.

• The title of the film is nothing to do with the Doomsday Clock, which was not introduced until eight years after the events of the film, and is nothing to do with British Intelligence. As the character of Captain Drey explains in the film itself, it refers to Miller's Intelligence phone contact number which is Whitehall 1154.

• Snapshots of the actual school, classrooms, and schoolgirls were shown before the end credits.

Box Office

Gross (Domestic): $132,500

Opening Weekend (Domestic): $51,315 (2021-03-28)

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2.35 : 1

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FAQ

• Is it true that daughters of Nazi High-Command were detained in the UK prior to the declaration of WW2?