SOPHIE SCHOLL
The Final Days
(2005 - Germany - 120 minutes)
Directed by
Mark Rothemund
This film details the last six days of
the primary members of a resistance group called the White Rose. The
White Rose was an organization of students, mainly around Munich,
during the years 1942-1943.The story of the events leading up to the
actual execution in 1943, of Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans and
friend Christoph Probst, is horrifying for the sheer banality of
their offence. As members of the student group they were secretly
distributing pamphlets daring to question Hitler's conduct of the war
and the likelihood of victory. They are caught by a tiny thread of
circumstance and increasingly dragged deeper and deeper into its
destructive mechanism.

The acting of the three main characters
is simply superb.

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