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This harrowing German drama is based on the real life events surrounding the German White Rose resistance group, an organisation of German students and conscientious objectors who opposed the Nazi regime and the war. In Munich in 1943, student Sophie Scholl (Julia Jentsch) and her brother Hans (Fabian Hinrichs) are arrested for handing out leaflets opposing the regime. Subjected to brutal interrogation by Gestapo officer Robert Mohr (Gerald Alexander Held), Sophie refuses to break, until Mohr makes it clear that her failure to confess will cost her the lives of her family and friends. The film is based on the actual interrogation transcripts from the Nazi archives.
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Superb --The Times
A compelling chronicle of courage --Empire
As with the brilliant Downfall,Sophie Scholl is compelling viewing --Hotdog
A compelling chronicle of courage --Empire
As with the brilliant Downfall,Sophie Scholl is compelling viewing --Hotdog
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151 of 152 people found the following review helpful
By A. G. Booty
Format:DVD
Stars Julia Jensch ["The Edukators"/"Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei"]. This was the Oscar nomination for Germany for 2006. A marvellously filmed and acted portrayal of Sophie Scholl and her involvement in "Die weiße Rose" -the movement that tried to incite the German people against Nazi atrocities by distributing leaflets. Sophie, then 21 years old, is captured [after so nearly getting away with her actions] by the Nazis and interrogated.
Julia Jentsch excels in the role of the only female member of the group, passionately fighting against horrific injustice. The second stage of the film involves gripping, interrogation and defence argument with marvellous, believable performances. Contrary to a couple of other reviewers here, I found the film evoked a great deal of tension. It led the viewer one way, then another; then there is the dramatic and powerful trial scene and the moving and shocking build up to the end.
This is the action of debate [the scenes in the film were also shot chronologically]and the whole is now movingly, now unnervingly underscored by the specially composed music of Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek.
The German film industry is in a "Blütezeit" - a blossoming time - with lots of very good, unusual work being produced. Perhaps this film was a little ponderous for Hollywood tastes, as it did not win [though I read that a Hollywood version is going to be made with Christina Ricci in the role of Sophie]. We shall see how Germany fares this coming February with the excellent "Das Leben der Anderen" [out on German DVD, not yet in this country -"The Life of the Others" - a love story/political thriller set in the former GDR].... Read more ›
Julia Jentsch excels in the role of the only female member of the group, passionately fighting against horrific injustice. The second stage of the film involves gripping, interrogation and defence argument with marvellous, believable performances. Contrary to a couple of other reviewers here, I found the film evoked a great deal of tension. It led the viewer one way, then another; then there is the dramatic and powerful trial scene and the moving and shocking build up to the end.
This is the action of debate [the scenes in the film were also shot chronologically]and the whole is now movingly, now unnervingly underscored by the specially composed music of Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek.
The German film industry is in a "Blütezeit" - a blossoming time - with lots of very good, unusual work being produced. Perhaps this film was a little ponderous for Hollywood tastes, as it did not win [though I read that a Hollywood version is going to be made with Christina Ricci in the role of Sophie]. We shall see how Germany fares this coming February with the excellent "Das Leben der Anderen" [out on German DVD, not yet in this country -"The Life of the Others" - a love story/political thriller set in the former GDR].... Read more ›
122 of 126 people found the following review helpful
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Format:DVD
Devastating and heart-breaking this film of the true story of Sophie Scholl is indeed a testament to the power of free speech and fearless dedication to a cause and the bravery of one girl and her brother. This film is so simple yet so affecting and features an overwhelming understated performance by young German actress Julia Jentsch as the doomed Sophie.
Director Marc Rothemund and screenwriter Fred Breinersdorfer based this film on new interviews with friends and relatives and the never-before-released records of Scholl's Gestapo interrogation. But it is Jentsch's powerful portrayal of the willful Sophie that effectively anchors this film and in turn gives it so much power.
Certainly student dissent is not something that we think of in Nazi Germany, but dissent they did. Set in 1943 Munich Sophie Scholl is about a group of single-minded university students and some other members of what was called the White Rose, who secretly write, print and distribute leaflets condemning the war, which they rightly predict will bring their nation to its knees Of course, these kids are taking a big risk, and they do so at a horrible price.
While furtively placing leaflets outside classrooms at the University of Munich, the activists are spotted by a janitor who turns them in. Soon Sophie (Julia Jentsch), brother Hans (Fabian Hinrichs) and friend Christoph (Florian Stetter) face the Gestapo, a harsh judge, a trial that is so biased its a joke and finally, the threat of quick execution.... Read more ›
Director Marc Rothemund and screenwriter Fred Breinersdorfer based this film on new interviews with friends and relatives and the never-before-released records of Scholl's Gestapo interrogation. But it is Jentsch's powerful portrayal of the willful Sophie that effectively anchors this film and in turn gives it so much power.
Certainly student dissent is not something that we think of in Nazi Germany, but dissent they did. Set in 1943 Munich Sophie Scholl is about a group of single-minded university students and some other members of what was called the White Rose, who secretly write, print and distribute leaflets condemning the war, which they rightly predict will bring their nation to its knees Of course, these kids are taking a big risk, and they do so at a horrible price.
While furtively placing leaflets outside classrooms at the University of Munich, the activists are spotted by a janitor who turns them in. Soon Sophie (Julia Jentsch), brother Hans (Fabian Hinrichs) and friend Christoph (Florian Stetter) face the Gestapo, a harsh judge, a trial that is so biased its a joke and finally, the threat of quick execution.... Read more ›
90 of 93 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Sophie Scholl the last days is an excellent film that tells a story little known outside Germany. Sophie and her brother are brilliantly portrayed. What is striking is how they both deal with arrest, interogation and the prospect of execution with such admirable bravery.The courtroom scene brings home the harsh and detached views the Nazis had. The total lack of compassion and human emotion is very evident as Fiesler spouts his Nazi rhetoric. The film is another brilliant example of German directors coming to terms with thier country's past.
Whilst slightly harrowing and very emotional, this film leaves a definate imprint in your mind, reminding you how even in darkness, some had the will to shine out for others.
Whilst slightly harrowing and very emotional, this film leaves a definate imprint in your mind, reminding you how even in darkness, some had the will to shine out for others.
40 of 41 people found the following review helpful
By Mr. Ian A. Macfarlane
TOP 100 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
This is without doubt an excellent film, but it is hard to watch. Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans work covertly against the Nazis, posting out anti-Nazi leaflets, but then he makes the mistake of distributing them personally at the University, and Sophie helps. They are seen and caught, and the bulk of the film focuses on her imprisonment, interrogation and trial. She shows unswerving courage and great skill in arguing her case - that freedom of speech should be allowed and that the state is the criminal, not she - but, of course, to no avail, except perhaps that she impresses her interrogator, a man called Mohr who has a son about her age, and whose arguments against what she says become weaker and weaker as the interrogation continues ; the scenes with Mohr are compelling. But the end is inevitable, the show trial a farce, and she, her brother and a colleague meet their deaths by guillotine. The film ends with stills of the real-life Sophie herself and Hans. The script, acting and direction are entirely appropriate and effective, which makes the film the more powerful. It is a story of the sacrifice of the praiseworthily innocent and because it is true, and the film represents it so convincingly, hard to watch ; but very good nonetheless.
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Good Priced Item. This is a great film. This was the cheapest place to buy this product & I am very happy.
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