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DVD : Sophie Scholl - The Final DaysIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Julia Jentsch, Gerald Alexander Held, Fabian Hinrichs, Johanna Gastdorf, André Hennicke directed by: Marc Rothemund  List Price: $29.99 Amazon.com's Price: $24.99 You Save: $5.00 (17%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD EAN: 0795975108331 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Zeitgeist Films Manufacturer: Zeitgeist Films Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Zeitgeist Films Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 14, 2006 Running Time: 117 minutes Studio: Zeitgeist Films Theatrical Release Date: 2005 Sales Rank: 5327 MPN: D1083D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: 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. Amazon.com: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - WOW!Every once in a while, they make a great movie about a great person. This is one of those movies. Think about all of the things you worry about in your life, and all of the things you are afraid of in your life. And then think of a 21 year-old girl, a kindergarten teacher, who laid down her life to stand up to Adolf Hitler. This is a fantastic movie about the courage of that one girl and her compatriots in The White Rose movement who took a stand and defied Nazi Germany. It is a stain on the ... Read More Rating: - Guilty, yes, but the sun still shines for Sophie Scholl.Marc Rothemund's superb 2005 German historical drama, Sophie Scholl - The Final Days (Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage), chronicles the last days in the life of Sophie Scholl, a 21-year-old member of the underground student resistance group called the "Weisse Rose" (White Rose). In telling Scholl's story, Rothemund draws from survivor interviews and the transcripts of Scholl's actual interrogation and trial that had remained hidden in East German archives until 1990. The film was nominated for an ... Read More Rating: - A film of meticulous detail...The magnificnt achievement of director Marc Rothemund and writer Fred Breinersdorfer regarding a "modern day" martyr is nothing short of riveting. No explosions, big sets, etc., but a simple display of a period in history that can only cause disbelief. Based on actual transcripts and interviews, Sophie's story is told in a concise fashion. Though not fast moving, it's ability to provoke thoughts is to be commended. I can only add to previous reviewers' comments that the acting is, without exception, ... Read More Rating: - Subdued HorrorThis 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 ... Read More Rating: - the war***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 ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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