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EVIL TOUCH.(Sophie Scholl: The Final Days)(Movie review)
The new German movie "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days" is as plain as its title. The film follows the last six days in the life of Scholl (Julia Jentsch), who, with her brother, Hans (Fabian Hinrichs), and a friend, Christoph Probst (Florian Stetter), was executed by the Nazis in 1943. All three were members of the White Rose, a student resistance movement at Munich University. Sophie went there in May of 1942 to study biology and philosophy; Hans, a medical student, had enrolled in 1939. Both were ardent Christians. Early in the film, they take a suitcase of leaflets protesting Hitler's regime and the prolongation of the war to the Munich campus and leave them outside the ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 19, 1987 700+ words
...formally inaugurate the White Rose Foundation and will...execution of Hans and Sophie Scholl, who were the leaders of the White Rose. Ambassador Arthur...sister of Hans and Sophie Scholl, executed White Rose leaders; Hildegard...
- Die weisse Rose: Matthew Zadow (Hans Scholl) and Marta Ewa Matulewicz (Sophie...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Citron, Paula March 22, 2005 700+ words
...under the auspices of the White Rose Project, German composer...opera, Die weisse Rose (White Rose), as part of Holocaust...brother and sister Hans and Sophie Scholl, based on fragments...student resistance group, White Rose, whose major crime was...
- Sophie Scholl: the Final Days: a new German film brings to life the shining...
- Magazine article from: The New American Jasper, William F. April 3, 2006 700+ words
...leadership of The White Rose were hunted down...German-made movie Sophie Scholl: The Final Days...members of The White Rose: 21-year...philosophy student Sophie Scholl and her 24-year...several thousand White Rose leaflets on the...
- The White Rose and the definition of 'resistance: Simon Henderson explains the...
- Magazine article from: History Review Henderson, Simon December 1, 2005 700+ words
...February 18th 1943 Hans and Sophie Scholl threw hundreds of leaflets...with other members of the White Rose movement, they dared to struggle...regime. The story of the White Rose should be celebrated as the...entitled 'Leaflets of the White Rose' that were intended to ...
- Newly Opened German Archives Reveal the Real Sophie Scholl.(Culture)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) March 6, 2006 700+ words
...By contrast, Sophie Scholl is anything but...21-year-old Sophie Scholl, the heroine of...movement known as the White Rose, in the currently...German films about Sophie Scholl and the White Rose, but neither one...
- Sophie Scholl: The Final Days.(Movie review)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Video Business October 30, 2006 700+ words
...nominees for Best Foreign Language Film, Sophie Scholl is the true story of a brave German...Nazi underground movement called "White Rose" led to her incarceration and execution...surviving family members and one of her White Rose compatriots. The extras are all worthwhile...
- 'SOPHIE SCHOLL' FALLS SHORT.(RHYTHM)
- Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) June 8, 2006 700+ words
...argument from me that Sophie Scholl was a saint. Scholl...movement called the White Rose that challenged Hitler...in a movie called "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days...and thoughtful than "Sophie Scholl." After a show trial...
- 'SOPHIE SCHOLL' A PORTRAIT OF COURAGE.(Living)(Movie review)
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) April 14, 2006 700+ words
...subject of "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days...year-old Sophie Scholl (Julia Jentsch...members of the White Rose, a resistance...actors playing White Rose members have...Jentsch plays Sophie Scholl, a young heroine...
