Sophie Scholl [videorecording] : the final days / a film by Marc Rothemund.

[Toronto]: Mongrel Media [distributor], c2013.
Added to CLICnet on 01/24/2014

Originally released in 2005.
Distributed in Canada by Mongrel Media. –Container.
Director, Marc Rothemund.
Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Alexander Held, Johanna Gasdorf, André Hennicke, Florian Stetter, Petra Kelling, Jorg Hube.
A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose. Munich, 1943: Sophie and Hans Scholl are members of the Weiße Rose (White Rose), a resistance group against the Nazi regime. When the siblings lay out fliers at the university, they are caught by the caretaker who calls the Gestapo. After their imprisonment, they are interrogated for days. In the beginning, Sophie manages to bluff the questioning official Robert Mohr, but Hans finally confesses everything. Now Sophie vindicates her ideals, but also tries to protect the other group members. On February 22nd, the Scholls and their aide Christoph Probst are accused of high treason and sentenced to death. As the execution tooks place the same day, Sophie has to take leave of her family.
Censorship classification: M. Contains: moderate themes.
PAL, Region 4, Dolby Digital., anamorphic widescreen 16:9.
In German. Sub-titles in English.

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Requested by deVries, J

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