Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage

original title:
Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage
other titles:
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
country / year of production:
Germany / 2005
original length:
117 min. , color
premiere:
24 February 2005
genre:
history film
based on:
director:
Marc Rothemund
film script:
Fred Breinersdorfer
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cast (role):
Julia Jentsch , Fabian Hinrichs , Gerald Alexander Held
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plot synopsis:
Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans both study at the university of Munich. It is February 1943 and Germany is in the middle of World War II. At this time a small group called "White Rose", including Sophie and Hans, plan a leaflet action at university. The leaflets they lay out, call upon the Germans to resist against Hitler. But Sophie is caught throwing the leaflets down a hall. She is interrogated by the Gestapo and commits having written the leaftlet. On February 22nd in 1943 she, her brother and a friend are executed.
keywords:
resistance, opposition , based on a true story , youth during wartime , execution , women during wartime , comradeship
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Fred Breinersdorfer (Ed.). Sophie Scholl. Die letzten Tage. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2005.

Margrit Frölich/ Christian Schneider/ Karsten Visarius (Hg.). Das Böse im Blick. Die Gegenwart des Nationalsozialismus im Film. München: Ed. Text + Kritik, 2007.
remarks:
Homepage: http://www.sophiescholl-derfilm.de/

Won three awards at the "German Film Awards" in 2005.
availability:
DVD