With her starring role in this year’s hugely successfully Cinderella for Disney, actress Lily James has continued her climb up the Hollywood ladder by joining the WWII drama The Kaiser’s Last Kiss.
James will star in the drama alongside Oscar winner Christopher Plummer (Beginners), with five-time Tony nominated director David Leveaux helming the film, which is based the novel by Alan Judd. Here’s the synopsis for the book from Amazon…
“A fictionalised account of the Kaiser Wilhelm’s last years in Nazi-occupied Holland. It is 1940 and the exiled Kaiser is living in Holland, at his palace Huis Doorn.The old German king spends his days chopping logs and musing on what might have been. When the Nazis invade Holland, the Kaiser’s Dutch staff are replaced by SS guards, led by young, eager Untersturmfuhrer Krebbs, and an unlikely relationship develops between the king and his keeper.”
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Originally published May 12, 2015. Updated April 13, 2018.
