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The White Rose

Die weiße Rose

West Germany

1982

123 Min
Color
1.66:1
German
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DIR Michael Verhoeven

EXEC Joschi Arpa

PROD Senta Berger, Artur Brauner, Hans Prescher, Dietmar Schings, Michael Verhoeven

SCR Mario Krebs, Michael Verhoeven

DP Axel de Roche

CAST Lena Stolze, Wulf Kessler, Oliver Siebert, Ulrich Tukur, Werner Stocker, Martin Benrath, Anja Kruse, Ulf-Jürgen Wagner, Mechthild Grossmann, Peter Kortenbach, Gerhard Friedrich, Sabine Kretzschmar, Heinz Keller

ED Barbara Hennings

PROD DES Laszlo Les Oelvedy

MUSIC Konstantin Wecker

SOUND Simon Buchner, Paul Schöler, Rainer Wiehr, Willi Schwadorf

Berlinale (New German Films)

Synopsis

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decesions and sanity of Germany’s Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the “White Rose” after a newsletter that is secretly distributed to the student body. At first small in numbers and fearful of discovery, the White Rose begins to gain massive support after a Nazi Gauleiter nearly incites a student riot after a provokative speech. At this point, the matter is taken over by the German Gestapo, who pledge to hunt down and destroy the members of the White Rose. –IMDb

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Michael Verhoeven

Michael Verhoeven (July 13, 1938 in Berlin) is a German film director. Verhoeven is the son of German film director, Paul Verhoeven (not to be confused with the Dutch film director Paul Verhoeven). He married actress Senta Berger in 1966; their son is the actor-director Simon Verhoeven. Together, the couple formed a production company to make films. The anti-Vietnam War film, o.k. was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival, but a scandal forced a collapse of the festival without the awarding of any prizes.

In 1982, Verhoeven released Die weiße Rose (The White Rose), which, with the Best Foreign film nomination of Das schreckliche Mädchen (The Nasty Girl) in 1990, cemented his reputation as an important political contributor to German film. Along with his films Mutters Courage (My Mother’s Courage) and documentary Der unbekannte Soldat (The Unknown Soldier), they have been hailed as an unstinting examination of Germany’s Nazi period. In 1992, he was a member… read more

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