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Aro Recommended Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

 

Germany 2005, 120 minutes
Dir. March Rothemund
In German with English subtitles
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama / Courtroom, War

Topics: Period 1940s.

Feat. Julia Jentsch

 

Aroview: An interesting and worthy companion piece to the excellent DOWNFALL, this necessarily grim drama looks at the trial of 21-year-old activist student Sophie Scholl by the Nazis in 1943.

The real-life Scholl, who today is regarded as a German national heroine, impulsively distributed pamphlets at a university, and the film constructs her final few days based on the court transcripts and the Gestapo interrogation records. More a police procedural than a historical epic, it's a story of courage and moral righteousness that gathers a real sense of suspense and drama, and will continue to have resonance in contemporary times.

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