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Sophie Scholl: the Final Days (2005)
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The activities of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose resistance movement have been dramatised for film twice before, in Michael Verhoeven's The White Rose and Percy Adlon's Five Last Days (both 1982). However, Marc Rothemund's starkly authentic and deeply affecting drama has the advantage of being based on the Gestapo records of Scholl's interrogation, after she was caught distributing anti-Nazi leaflets around Munich University in 1943. Julia Jentsch (The Edukators) is sympathetically stoic in the title role, although her courage and conviction are powerfully matched by the disgust, disappointment and grudging respect exhibited by Gestapo interrogator Alexander Held during their intense confrontations. Fabian Hinrichs, as Jentsch's co-conspirator brother, and Johanna Gastdorf, as her Communist cellmate, also impress. DP
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Running time
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115min
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Country of origin
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Ger / Fr
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Genre
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Second World War Biographical Drama
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Alternate title
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Sophie Scholl Die Letzten Tage
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Original language
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German
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Screenplay
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Fred Breinersdorfer
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Theatrical distributor
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ICA Projects
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UK cinema certificate
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PG
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UK cinema release date
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October 2005
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Subtitling information
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In German with subtitles
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