Cinematographer Chris Seager is especially effective with these two moods. Then there's the real-life history of the school, part of a plan for a "soft power" incursion into Great Britain at a time when the strategy of appeasement and some of England's wealthy and powerful elites were very sympathetic to Hitler. At first, the arrival of the new teacher has a "Jane Eyre" tone, with Miller as a (relatively) naive outsider coming to a dark and foreboding old building filled with secrets. The movie tells us at least three different stories at once and the spy story is the least interesting. But he shows her he speaks it as well as she does, and she settles down, or seems to. "The Führer would say he isn't man enough," she whispers to a classmate in German, assuming he cannot understand the language. Astrid ( Maria Dragus), arrogant and seen by the other girls as their leader, is quick to dismiss him. Whether that's an adequate answer or whether Rocholl has no alternative, Miller gets the job and is in the classroom moments later. In an interview with Miss Rocholl ( Judi Dench), the only important question is "What sort of Englishman would accept a post teaching Hitler's League of German Girls?" Miller responds, in German, that his father was German. Miller's predecessor was found dead on the beach.
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