Sophie Scholl - The Final Days | 
 enlarge | Director: Marc Rothemund
Actors: Julia Jentsch, Gerald Alexander Held, Fabian Hinrichs, Johanna Gastdorf, André Hennicke
Studio: Zeitgeist Films
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 6163
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), German (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 117
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D1083D
UPC: 795975108331
EAN: 0795975108331
ASIN: B000H5V8H2
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: November 14, 2006
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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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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.
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 Subdued Horror June 30, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
the war June 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
***mild spoilers**********
The movie focusses on the exchange between the Nazi official interrogator and Sophie.
Their exchange illustrated a historical conflict that has been going on for at least the past 300 years.
There are those who are determined to create a new world order, and are willing to lie and intimidate and kill the innocent in order to create a society that will give the greatest happiness to the greatest number of a subset people who they consider worth it. (The Jacobins, the Bolsheviks, The Eugenicists, The Nazis....)
Then there are those who do not.
Here is a conversation from the movie
Girl: [talks about Nazis killing mentally retarded children]
Official: Their lives were not worthy. (worth living)....[talks]
Girl: No one, regardless of circumstances, can pass God's judgment. No one knows what goes on in the minds of mentally ill. You do not know the wisdom that can be bought from suffering. Every life is precious.
Official: You have to realize a new age has dawned. What you are saying has nothing to do with reality.
Girl: it has everything to do with reality. With decency, morals, and God.
Official: [exasperated] God! God doesn't exist!
I cried. The German official wasn't a jerk. He was a reasonable, logical, well-meaning man. And it didn't end in 1945. I think in the USA alone, 80% of Down Syndrome kids are killed before birth.
Absolutely Amazing June 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I watched this movie over a year ago and was truly amazed by the story. I happened to see it at a video rental establishment recently and that spurred me on to looking for a copy of my own. Seems like the older I get, the more interested I become in all historical events. We all need to know about many events that have transpired before revisionism does its dirty deed. Among many other sad events, Rwanda stands out as amongst the worst.
inspiring story of courage and vision June 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
a beautiful film...
fine actors portraying
people we only know over the course
of a very short span of time...
the action takes place
in a linear fashion, often in an
interrogation room, and we're
led on and on until the finish...
the lovely thing about this
film is that the end is shown
to be not an end at all...
good special features on this disc too!
 Not Happy May 27, 2008
2 out of 14 found this review helpful
Thought this was in English but it is in German with subtitles. This is no problem for me as I speak and read German but I think this is problem for your other customers. I have lived in Germany for 38 years
Jack and Carrie Allen
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