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: English (Subtitled); German (Original Language); French (Original Language)
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
Movie Reviews of Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
Movie Review: Subdued Horror
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a brilliant film, which should be shown regularly.
Julia Jentsch gives a subdued and controlled performance in a understated film. The director deepens the horror of Sophie Scholl's predicament through a methodical presentation of her examination and trial.
The overall emotion of all the players is fear and the director conveyed that fear convincingly in his almost zen-like approach to the banality of the police and judicial system, which leads the viewer and Sophie to the singular mechanical horror of the guillotine.
Summary of Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
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 Fetzer2005 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.
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