Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage

Germany

2005

117 Min

Color

German

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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PROD Marc Rothemund, Fred Breinersdorfer, Sven Burgemeister

CAST Julia Jentsch, Alexander Held, Fabian Hinrichs, André Hennicke, Florian Stetter, Johanna Gastdorf, Maximilian Brückner, Anne Clausen, Johannes Suhm, Lilli Jung, Klaus Händl, Petra Kelling, Jörg Hube, Franz Staber

MUSIC Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek

Berlinale (Competition): Silver Bear for Best Director, Silver Bear for Best Actress

Synopsis

2005 Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign language Film, Sophie Scholl: The Final Days is the true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to thrilling dramatic life. Sophie Scholl stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose.

Armed with long-buried historical records of her incarceration, director Marc Rothemund expertly re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl’s life: a heart-stopping journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to her comrades, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility that is both haunting and timeless. –IMDb

Director

Marc Rothemund

Marc Rothemund, born in 1968, comes from a Munich ”film family“. His grandfather, Siegfried Rothemund, was the producer of Siro-Musik and head of press for Das Maedchen Rosemarie (1958); Marc Rothemund began his professional career as assistant director to Helmut Dietl (for ROSSINI), Bernd Eichinger (for ‘Das Mädchen Rosemarie’, a remake of his grandfather’s classic), Dominik Graf (for ‘Sperling’) and Gérard Corbiau (for FARINELLI). In 1998 he obtained the Bavarian Film Prize as best young director for his first feature film DAS MERKWÜRDIGE VERHALTEN GESCHLECHTSREIFER GROSSSTÄDTER ZUR PAARUNGSZEIT (‘Love Scenes from Planet Earth’). With 1.7 million spectators, his second feature HARTE JUNGS (‘Just the Two of Us’) was one of the most successful films of 1999. His TV thriller ‘Das Duo – Der Liebhaber’ won the VFF TV Movie Award in 2003.

With SOPHIE SCHOLL-THE FINAL DAYS, Marc Rothemund continues his successful collaboration with screenwriter Fred Breinersdorfer, which was launched… read more

Marc Rothemund, born in 1968, comes from a Munich ”film family“. His grandfather, Siegfried Rothemund, was the producer of Siro-Musik and head of press for Das Maedchen Rosemarie (1958); Marc Rothemund began his professional career as assistant director to Helmut Dietl (for ROSSINI), Bernd Eichinger (for ‘Das Mädchen Rosemarie’, a remake of his grandfather’s classic), Dominik Graf (for ‘Sperling’) and Gérard Corbiau (for FARINELLI). In 1998 he obtained the Bavarian Film Prize as best young director for his first feature film DAS MERKWÜRDIGE VERHALTEN GESCHLECHTSREIFER GROSSSTÄDTER ZUR PAARUNGSZEIT (‘Love Scenes from Planet Earth’). With 1.7 million spectators, his second feature HARTE JUNGS (‘Just the Two of Us’) was one of the most successful films of 1999. His TV thriller ‘Das Duo – Der Liebhaber’ won the VFF TV Movie Award in 2003.

With SOPHIE SCHOLL-THE FINAL DAYS, Marc Rothemund continues his successful collaboration with screenwriter Fred Breinersdorfer, which was launched in 1997 with two episodes of the ZDF thriller series ‘Anwalt Abel’ (both awarded the Telestar) and reached a high point with the TV movie ‘Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt’ (2002). This gripping drama about the fateful bullying of a policewoman obtained many awards, including the Golden Camera and the Grimme Prize in Gold.

SOPHIE SCHOLL–THE FINAL DAYS has been invited to over two dozen festivals worldwide and has collected numerous awards including the Silver Bear for the Best Direction and Best Actress and the main prize from the Ecumenical Jury at the 2005 Berlinale, the Bernhard Wicki Filmpreis ”Die Bruecke – Der Friedenspreis des Deutschen Films“, and German Film Awards (Lolas) for the Best Film (Silver) and the Audience Award 2005. It will be the opening night film for the Made in Germany section of the AFI Festival in Los Angeles, and the closing night selection for the New Films from Germany series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. SOPHIE SCHOLL – THE FINAL DAYS has been honored as Germany’s Official Selection for the 78th Academy Awards. —Zeitgeist Films

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