Sophie Scholl
2005
Echoing Downfall's contemplation of the darkest period in Germany's history, Sohie Scholl is a heartbreaking drama based on the real life events and the activities of the White Rose resistance group. Munich, 1943. A group of students, including siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, instigate passive resistance in an attempt to .. Read more
| Starring | Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Gerald Alexander Held, Johanna Gastdorf |
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| Director | Marc Rothemund |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Sophie Scholl
Echoing Downfall's contemplation of the darkest period in Germany's history, Sohie Scholl is a heartbreaking drama based on the real life events and the activities of the White Rose resistance group. Munich, 1943. A group of students, including siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, instigate passive resistance in an attempt to overthrow the nazi regime. The siblings are arrested for ditributing leaflets and an intense psychological duel ensues in the interrogation room between Sophie and Gestapo officer Mohr...
| Starring | Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Gerald Alexander Held, Johanna Gastdorf |
|---|---|
| Director | Marc Rothemund |
| Studio | DRAKES AVENUE PICTURES |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 55 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 55 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: German Blu-ray: German |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 24 Apr 2006 Blu-ray: 27 Oct 2008 Production year: 2005 |
| Format | DVD |
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In the 2002 documentary Blind Spot: Hitlers Secretary, Traudl Junge speaks of reaching a bitter epiphany when... read more on Time Out
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Enormously powerful and, as a testament to the power of human integrity, it is peerless.
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68 out of 69 people found this review helpful
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Excellent dramatisation of real events
Having just returned from a 5 day trip to Munich, this film was recommended by a tour guide who took us to the White Rose memorial in the centre of Munich not far from the university where Sophie Scholl studied.
This is a powerful & thought provoking drama that tells of the real life struggle of a small, young resistance group 'White Rose' resistance and their leaftlet war against the Nazi regime.
If you enjoy this film, consider hiring 'Edelweis Pirates' another true story who had a similar struggle against the Nazis in Cologne. -
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8 out of 14 people found this review helpful
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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
An efficent but unremarkable telling of the true story of domestic resistence to the Nazis in the form of the white rose movement which is given life by one truly exceptional piece of acting.
As a film Sophie Scholl is resolutely decent. The direction fine but slightly pedestrian, the acting solid and the score stirrring but poorly used (it feels like an annoying friend telling you... and this bit)
Julia Jentsch, however, is so good as Sophie that she raises the film several notches. I knew Jentsch would be one to watch based on The Edukators but I never expected her to fulfill the potential she showed there so quickly and completely. In her you don't watch Julia Jentsch act, you watch Sophie Scholl get arrested, interrogated, tried and executed.
The film never lets us off the hook either, we go right up to the guilloutine with Jentsch and if you aren't a blubbing wreck by this point then I want to know why.
Sophie Scholl: The Last Days is only the second best film about world war two to come out of Germany in 2005 (after Downfall) but it's worth seeing to catch a girl who could, on this evidence, be a truly special talent, on her way up. -
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