Always interesting character study based on the real 'White Rose'; anti-Nazi students who bravely faced to execution instead of re-canting, or turning on their comrades. The film is very play-like, focusing on the five days between Sophie's arrest and execution, and the complex relationships she develops in those few days waiting in her prison (a converted mansion),especially with a fellow woman prisoner who comes to care for her.
I quite liked the film, but with reservations. Somehow I wasn't moved as deeply as I felt I should be, and I never felt I really got inside Sophie's head. Some of her dialogue felt more like polemic speeches from a writer than the words of a very young woman facing death for her beliefs. The acting is generally excellent, but Lena Stolze, in the lead, was a bit in and out for me. Still, a good enough film about a fascinating subject that I'd recommend one seeing for oneself, and coming to your own conclusions.
7.0Keywords: naziresistancewhite rosetime of war
Plot summary
In Wittelbacherpalais, Munich's prison and Gestapo center, middle-aged Else Gebel awaits trial for carrying anti-Nazi material. She serves as a clerk in the Gestapo office. On Thursday, 18 February 1943, two youths arrive at the prison, arrested for carrying anti-Reich pamphlets and suspected of dropping leaflets from the university tower and painting anti-Hitler signs along Ludwigstraße: Sophie, 21, and her brother Hans, 24 and back from the Russian front. Sophie is housed with Else, and for five days, as Sophie is interrogated and charges brought, the women form a bond based on simple interactions: poetry, tea, shared clothing, courage, love of freedom, and a promise Else gives Sophie.
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Compelling drama about the last 5 days of a Nazi protestor...
1st watched 10/28/1999 - 7 out of 10(Dir-Percy Adlon): Compelling drama about the last 5 days of a Nazi protestor before her execution and the relationship she builds with another inmate who hasn't been given the death sentence.Focus is put on the strength & conviction of the young girl despite her enivitable demise.
Great movie about youth.
Outstanding film. More like a play than a movie. Coupled with the excellent movie, "The White Rose", this film adds to the tale of Sophie Scholl and the underground student resistance movement at Munich University in 1942 - 1943. The acting is superb. And from what I have found out through interviews of people who were there; realistic. This film is easy to find in Philadephia at TLA. Hopefully, it is easy to find elsewhere.