Average Rating: 7.3/10
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A film that begs the audience to reflect upon their own courage and strength of character in light of this young heroine's daring story.
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 2
A film that begs the audience to reflect upon their own courage and strength of character in light of this young heroine's daring story.
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Filmmaker Marc Rothemund utilizes long-buried historical records to reconstruct the last six days in the life of renowned German anti-Nazi activist Sophie Scholl (Julia Jentsch) in an Academy Award-nominated feature that earned star Julia Jentsch a Best Actress award at both the 2005 Lolas and the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival. The year is 1943 and Adolf Hitler's devastating march across Europe has resulted in the formation of the White Rose, an underground resistance movement born in
Feb 24, 2006 Limited
Nov 14, 2006
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The realization that we are, in many instances, listening in on actual proceedings gives the film an immediacy that no dramatist could hope to match.
There's a resonance to Sophie Scholl that crosses borders and approaches the timeless.
Through it all, Jentsch is a beacon of bravery and resolve in the darkness of a totalitarian machine. If any actor in an English-language film has given a better performance in the past year, I'd like to see it.
A disturbing film about courage, idealism, youth and the grim mechanics of mankind gone mad.
Frank and frightening.
Sophie Scholl's is a story well worth telling, and this movie is one well worth checking out.
A very tense study of the last days of Nazism, and a worthy homage to a true heroine...
A claustrophobic bio-pic which telescopes tightly on the torture of the fearless activist till her demise after less than a week in the hands of Hitler's sadistic interrogators.
The film has an immeasurable fascination that makes us look on as voyeurs and wonder how we might have reacted during such desperate times.
Although Sophie Scholl is noteworthy for its performances, it will undoubtedly fail to capture the popular imagination here.
Compelling in its depiction of quiet heroism, this testament to the power of passive resistance is made all the more authentic and poignant by the superbly controlled performance of Julia Jentsch.
Jentsch keep[s] up a subtle, restrained performance while the movie Nazis around her are screaming themselves red in the face. She succeeds beyond all expectation.
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The subject matter apart, the film is a meticulously crafted drama, observing and recording the events, setting mood and creating a sense of time and place that further deepen our involvement.
While Scholl's virtuous life makes her eminently worthy of her own biopic, it doesn't necessarily make her the most interesting subject for a movie.
The film holds few surprises, though it builds a remarkable level of suspense during the fait-accompli interrogation scenes, and is a well-intended commemoration of a courageous young woman.
There's no moment of release, no instant of sudden redemption in this powerful, moving, and altogether devastating film.
Though Scholl's inquisition and trial are harrowing, there's too little sense of what sort of person Scholl was. We can only grasp at air and guess what it was inside her that drove her to forsake her life in favor of a higher purpose.
The film has a serious, urgent tone, but not a preachy or strident one.
The narrative is tight and compelling, claustrophobic in scope, with acting performances that chill in their understated anxiety and courage.
Sophie Scholl The Final Days is of accurate history of the brave last days of Sophie Scholl, who at 21, was accused guilty of high treason by distributing anti-Nazi paraphernalia at the University of Munich with his brother, Hans Scholl. Frank and compelling. A tribute to bravery and heroism. Significant.
September 10, 2011Super Reviewer
There are some great films based on The White Rose movement but I think it important to remember that this film is based purely on the manuscripts found from Sophie Scholl's interrogation. It is a near as possible reenactment of her last days, her actions and her words. It seems an awful shame that this doesn't seem to
November 2, 2010Super Reviewer
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