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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.'"
We need more movies like this.
"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."
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(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.
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.
Don't miss this one 4cj.
Showing at Fresno Filmworks Fresno CA May 7-one day only .
The reviewer makes the interesting point that the film does not exaggerate the evil character of Mohr, the Gestapo interrogator, in order to make Sophie look holier by comparison. On the contrary, Mohr is portrayed as a man of conviction himself, with a good mind, who spars with Sophie at the level of ideas and comes to respect her moral clarity and strength. At the end, Mohr's face looks stricken as he realizes that the Scholls and Probst -- the kind of young people who are the hope for Germany's future -- are doomed to immediate execution.
I gather that Mohr's notes on the interviews, preserved in East Germany, are a primary source for histories of the White Rose and for the movie. (There are two earlier films about the White Rose.)
For history buffs and all others who need to see film making at its best I am letting people know in the Western NY area that this moving and memorable film is playing at the following theater for a week:
Dipson Eastern Hills Cinema 3
4545 Transit Road,
Williamsville, NY - 14221
716-632-1081
Movie Showtimes
(Bargain prices shown in parenthesis) Details
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
(NOT RATED)
1 hour 57 minutes Today - Apr 20: (1:30, 4:00), 7:00, 9:30
Fri - Apr 21: (1:30, 4:00), 7:00, 9:30
Sat - Apr 22: (1:30, 4:00), 7:00, 9:30
Sun - Apr 23: (1:30, 4:00), 7:00, 9:30
Mon - Apr 24: (1:30, 4:00), 7:00, 9:30
Tue - Apr 25: (1:30, 4:00), 7:00, 9:30
Wed - Apr 26: (1:30, 4:00), 7:00, 9:30
Thu - Apr 27: (1:30, 4:00), 7:00, 9:30
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