Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
by Marc Rothemund
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Actor: Andr? Hennicke, Fabian Hinrichs, Gerald Alexander Held, Johanna Gastdorf, Julia JentschDirector: Marc Rothemund
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: German (Original Language), Unknown; French (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 117 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Zeitgeist Films
DVD Reviews of Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
DVD Review: Good but the "White Rose Society" was better
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a good, albeit, tame movie - more talk than action. Of course, that allows us to understand the philosophy and motivation of this group of young anti-Nazis. The earlier movie "The White Rose Society" was better. It showed more of the participants, their actions, and had much more of a build-up of fear. It doesn't seem to be available on DVD but really should be. Anyone truly interested in this story should watch both as well as "Downfall" in which Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge realizes that her own youth was not an excuse for her choices during WWII when she compares her life to that of Sophie's.DVD Review: Exceptional film, great for educators, very moving....
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a high school social studies teacher and discovered this film a few years ago. I enjoyed watching it the first time and found it very well made and well done. In my own research I also discovered it to be a highly accurate and well researched portrayal of the events surrounding the arrest and trial of Sophie Scholl and some of her fellow White Rose members.
It is subtitled in English and I was curious about whether or not my high school students would reject the film. Most of them have never seen a foreign film. After showing it, I was surprised to find that most of my students felt it was the best film they saw in class all year.
Be prepared with some extra information on the White Rose, their other and earlier pamphlets, and the People's Court. The kids had more questions after the film than they do after any other film or documentary and even some lectures. Also, try to give the kids some advice on watching subtitled films. Some of the kids were frustrated because the dialog can speed by faster than you can read is a few spots. I pointed out that they rarely hear all of the words spoken to them but they hear enough to fill in the blanks. I suggested that they could read as much as possible and that they would be fine.
DVD Review: Even the realtor..Both of whom I've offended..
Summary: 5 Stars
will enjoy this film.It is the story that bridges the gap between the reality of what happened to jews and the opinion of many of the German people,that they are monsters.It mentions the treaty of Versailles which gives way to fascism in Europe,and shows the story of a people who were indeed terrified of Hitler.Julia Jentsch,Alexnader Held,probably the two finest actors I have seen in a long time.The english subtitle is good for writing,and misses only a little bit,what could have been more dramatic dialogue and interpretations as far as my German tells me.But this is not a review of my German!See this movie with your family,talk about it,honor one another with this gift of film.DVD Review: Magnificent Film
Summary: 5 Stars
Sophie Scholl-The Final Days is a magnificent film that almost anyone will enjoy, and be gut wrenched by. This film is about Sophie Scholl, a member of the White Rose. The White Rose was a resistance group during Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Sophie and her brother were caught distributing leaflets, leaflets that had anti Nazi writings on them, at a university in Germany.
The majority of this movie is an ongoing conversation between Sophie and a gestapo interrogator. While I loved it, and everyone I know who has watched it also loved it, it could move at to slow a pace for children. There is practically no action in it, and it is 90% dialogue. Of course, that should not bother anyone because action is not the point of it.
The whole scenario pulls on your heart strings. The acting is excellent, and the dialogue is very intriguing. Bear in mind, the whole film is in German, and unless you speak German, you will obviously need subtitles to understand what is being said. I highly recomend this film to anyone, it will not disappoint you.
DVD Review: Sophie Scholl: A True Hero
Summary: 5 Stars
I was so pleased to find this film to be as interesting and wonderful as it was. I had never heard of Sophie Scholl or her brother. The story begins as university students from Berlin publish an underground newspaper and try to leave it in public areas of the city to be read. She is caught along with her brother and their trial begins. The knowledge that the Allies are close to invading provides hope for Sophie and her coconspirators but will they be rescued?
Description of Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
2005 Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Sophie Scholl - The Final Days is the true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to thrilling, dramatic life. Sophie Scholl stars Julia Jentsch (of recent cult fave The Edukators) in a luminous performance as the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. Armed with long-buried historical records of her incarceration, director Marc Rothemund expertly re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl's life: a heart-stopping journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to her comrades, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility that is both haunting and timeless.Through its simplicity and scrupulous attention to historical detail, Sophie Scholl: The Final Days proves to be both thrillingly suspenseful and emotionally devastating. During the peak of the Third Reich, Sophie Scholl (Julia Jentsch, The Edukators), along with her brother Hans and other students in Munich, formed a resistance group called the White Rose and distributed anti-Nazi leaflets. Sophie Scholl begins on a crisp winter day, with Sophie and Hans distributing leaflets around the empty halls of a university before class is let out. The tension only increases as they are arrested, interrogated, and swiftly convicted in a brutal show trial. The heart of the film are the scenes between Sophie and her interrogator, Robert Mohr (Gerald Alexander Held), a loyal Nazi who nonetheless respected and perhaps even admired Sophie. Their arguments, distilled down from hours of historical record, crackle with emotion and resonate throughout history, from Communist totalitarianism to the Bush administration condemning critics of the Iraq war as traitors. Jentsch's restrained performance only grows more and more moving over the movie's course. A deeply engaging and powerful movie. --Bret Fetzer
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