Sophie Scholl: The Final Days[powerful example of faith and courage in the face of great evil]

WORLD ^ | 3/25/06 | Andrew Coffin

[bjs1779]

t'wit,BB,all, give your ping lists a buzz.

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[T'wit]

The lovingly tended graves of Hans and Sophie Scholl (together on the left) and Christoph Probst (right). The three died together for their Christian resistance to the Nazis, and, fittingly, are buried together in (old) Perlach Cemetery, Munich.

Memorial to The White Rose in Ulm, home of the Scholls. It reads, "From the leaflets of The White Rose: 'WE WILL NOT BE SILENT. WE ARE YOUR BAD CONSCIENCE. THE WHITE ROSE WILL GIVE YOU NO PEACE.'"

[Guenevere]

"He is no fool to give up what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose"....Jim Elliot, missionary martyr

[Guenevere]

We need more movies like this.

[8mmMauser]

Pinged from Terri APRIL Dailies

"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."

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[bjs1779]

Judge Greer Roland Freisler - The People's Court - October 30, 1893 - February 3, 1945

To bad he didn't live long enough to swing off the end of a rope.

[kayak]

I had not heard of it until now. It sounds like a powerful movie ... a story that needs to be known.

[Guenevere]

Too bad he didn't live long enough to swing off the end of a rope

He hasn't escaped God's judgment.

[DollyCali]

Thanks so much for the ping Guennie & the thread Caleb. I really hadn't seen anything about this movie. I don't think it even made it to Cleveland at our one cinema that does foreign and small release films.

I keep wishing there were a weekly movie thread where movies could be talked about etc. But I envision what would happen it would be regularly attacked by those "who wont waste their hard earned dollars etc..."

Maybe I will do it.. New weekly posting on Thursday of each week.

[bjs1779]

I don't think it even made it to Cleveland at our one cinema that does foreign and small release films.

The schedule posted above says June 9th at Cedar Lee.

[DollyCali]

Thank you . I had not gone to the hotlinks. So it is on its way! good. that is the theater I mentioned has the independents & foreign films. I will plan to see it.

[BykrBayb]

You'll be glad you did. It's an excellent film!

[bjs1779]

FindaGrave.com

[T'wit]

(Photo one), Sophie Magdalena Scholl at about 10 years old. To look at it, would you suppose this little girl would go on to shake up the Nazi high command? Look again at that gleam in her eye, she is capable of anything! (Photo two), Sophie as student, age unknown. (Photo three), from left, Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl and Cristoph Probst, together at the University of Munich, July, 1942. The following February 22, 1943, they were executed together for the "high treason" of denouncing the mistreatment of Jews and urging passive resistance to Hitler.

[jtill]

Thanks for the ping. Sounds like a wonderfully inspirational film.

Unfortunately, after checking the Play List I find that it isn't going to be shown in this state. Guess I'll have to wait until it comes out on DVD.

[T'wit]

>> (with a wider release expected)

Oh, my, I hope so. I urge Freepers to see it if they can, and to talk it up everywhere we can in the meanwhile. It is cinema at the finest -- a true story focused on a timeless, riveting moral drama. In its tragedy is a spark of triumph. Sophie, 21 years old, faces a courtroom packed with Nazi functionaries. She looks her judges in the eye, head unbowed, answers their charges and foretells to them that they will be on trial next. And she was right.

Great cast, no weaknesses anywhere. Julia Jentsch, as Sophie, was beyond praise.

[bjs1779]

Don't miss this one 4cj.

[bjs1779]

Showing at Fresno Filmworks Fresno CA May 7-one day only .

[Guenevere]

She looks her judges in the eye, head unbowed, answers their charges and foretells to them that they will be on trial next. And she was right.

"But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it.
At that time you will be given what to say, for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you."....Matthew 10:19,20