1st watched 10/28/1999 - 7 out of 10(Dir-Percy Adlon): Compelling drama about the last 5 days of a Nazi protestor before her execution and the relationship she builds with another inmate who hasn't been given the death sentence.Focus is put on the strength & conviction of the young girl despite her enivitable demise.
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Always interesting, if not overwhelming
runamokprods17 May 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Always interesting character study based on the real 'White Rose'; anti-Nazi students who bravely faced to execution instead of re-canting, or turning on their comrades. The film is very play-like, focusing on the five days between Sophie's arrest and execution, and the complex relationships she develops in those few days waiting in her prison (a converted mansion), especially with a fellow woman prisoner who comes to care for her.
I quite liked the film, but with reservations. Somehow I wasn't moved as deeply as I felt I should be, and I never felt I really got inside Sophie's head. Some of her dialogue felt more like polemic speeches from a writer than the words of a very young woman facing death for her beliefs. The acting is generally excellent, but Lena Stolze, in the lead, was a bit in and out for me. Still, a good enough film about a fascinating subject that I'd recommend one seeing for oneself, and coming to your own conclusions.
I quite liked the film, but with reservations. Somehow I wasn't moved as deeply as I felt I should be, and I never felt I really got inside Sophie's head. Some of her dialogue felt more like polemic speeches from a writer than the words of a very young woman facing death for her beliefs. The acting is generally excellent, but Lena Stolze, in the lead, was a bit in and out for me. Still, a good enough film about a fascinating subject that I'd recommend one seeing for oneself, and coming to your own conclusions.
Sparse, fragile and bleak
Billiam-44 April 2022
Sparse, fragile and bleak one-room drama centers its narrative on the psychological hardships of the two prisoners and their relationship to each other and avoids dramatizing the actual historic event of their arrest, trial and execution.
Great movie about youth.
Ed-11911 January 1999
Outstanding film. More like a play than a movie. Coupled with the excellent movie, "The White Rose", this film adds to the tale of Sophie Scholl and the underground student resistance movement at Munich University in 1942 - 1943. The acting is superb. And from what I have found out through interviews of people who were there; realistic. This film is easy to find in Philadephia at TLA. Hopefully, it is easy to find elsewhere.
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