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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
Zeitgeist Films
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Julia Jentsch,
Fabian Hinrichs,
Gerald Alexander Held,
Johanna Gastdorf,
André Hennicke,
Florian Stetter,
Johannes Suhm,
and
Maximilian Brückner
The true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in Germany's official Foreign Language Film selection for the 2005 Academy Awards. Sophie Scholl stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the young coed-turned-fearless activist. 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. (Zeitgeist Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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Foreign
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War
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Fred Breinersdorfer
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Marc Rothemund
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 14, 2006
Theatrical: February 17, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
117 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Germany |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
German (with English subtitles) |
Original title "Sophie Scholl: Die Letzten Tage"; Nominated, Best Foreign Language Film of the Year (Germany), 78th Annual Academy Awards

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91
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
Throughout, Sophie exhibits the quality common to all of history's great martyrs, a preternatural calmness that perseveres despite (or perhaps because of) the inevitability of her doom.

91
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
It's an authentic, harrowing tale of heroism.

89
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Sophie Scholl plods along inexorably, one step after another, to its grim, sad end. It's almost unbearable.

88
TV Guide
Ken Fox
The film is a shattering experience fueled by Jentsch's electrifying performance.

83
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Tasha Robinson
While the film doesn't dig deep, or hit particularly hard, it neatly achieves its modest goals: presenting a real-life heroine in real-life terms. A film this fictionalized rarely feels this much like fact.

83
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Rothemund's use of the recorded testimony, while it gives his film a startling veracity, also limits his imagination. It prevents him from delving too deeply into the psychology of these activists.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Julia Jentsch strong and graceful, quiet knockout of a performance is the film's most potent weapon.

80
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days may sound like a history lesson, but don't be fooled. It's a horror film.

80
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
It's a crisply made, absorbing human drama that frames its moral confrontation between good and evil in universal terms.

80
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Rock solid performances by up-and-coming German actress Julia Jentsch as Sophie and Alexander Held ("Downfall") as Mohr along with an excellent cast of supporting players insure that no one mistakes this for a lifeless docu-drama.

80
Variety
Derek Elley
An ace performance by 26-year-old Julia Jentsch ("The Edukators," "Snowland"), as the quietly determined Munich student who was beheaded for distributing counter-propaganda leaflets in 1943, gives pic a focused dramatic power.

80
Village Voice
Leslie Camhi
A life so tragically and quickly extinguished presents maudlin temptations, but director Marc Rothemund ably resists them. His gripping, moving film focuses on a breathtakingly brief five-day period.

80
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
This gripping true story, directed in a cool, semi-documentary style by the German filmmaker Marc Rothemund from a screenplay by Fred Breinersdorfer, challenges you to gauge your own courage and strength of character should you find yourself in similar circumstances.

80
Dallas Observer
Jean Oppenheimer
Though we know the story's final outcome, the trial scene and its aftermath are no less shocking and affecting.

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Julia Jentsch offers a brilliant example of what actors call "not playing the ending," and the awful suspense of the piece is watching as she realizes, in increments, that this is all much worse than she thought.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Everything about Sophie Scholl screams "martyr" and "saint." Jentsch will have none of it. Hers is a performance of supreme emotional control, yet clear emotional fire. The actress makes the icon human.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The film holds us rapt not through narrative suspense but through the eerie and demanding spectacle of profound moral courage, of a powerless good person in collision with absolute evil.

75
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Rothemund gives us his sophisticated filmmaking only in the finale, which is devastating in its briskness and fury.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
The orderly and clean drama is more like theater than history come to life.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The effect of this scene is so powerful that I leaned forward like a jury member, wanting her to get away with it so I could find her innocent.

75
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Sophie Scholl is a powerful story. But it's a little annoying how men become beside the point when the focus is on emotion. Sophie did no more or less than her brother, but he's ignored for nearly all of the movie because it's easier to stir up compassion - it's easier to manipulate the audience - when the subject is a woman.

75
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Sophie Scholl has a certain quiet dignity that wins its audience popularity honestly.

75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Sophie Scholl is the subject of a feature film that has earned an Oscar nomination for a Germany she would have loved to live in.

70
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
The script is so intellectualized that I couldn't help feeling I was witnessing not two complex people locked in struggle, but the opposed souls (and classes) of Germany: Sophie, emblem of the cultured, tolerant and enlightened humanism of the middle classes duking it out with Mohr, resentful member of a disenfranchised proletariat from whose ranks sprang Hitler's most loyal quislings.

70
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Modest in scale but formidable in its impact.
70
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Sophie Scholl is not as devastatingly moving as "The White Rose," but it, too, evokes awe in lesser beings.

70
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Andre Hennicke is particularly chilling as the yappy mad dog judge who sends them to death.

60
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
After she's forced to confess, director Marc Rothemund doesn't have much to do but marvel at her heroic defiance, and the film is overtaken by its talkiness, claustrophobia, and polarized morality.

60
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
Powerfully rendered in every respect - and another testament to how bad the Nazis are for drama.

50
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
For most U.S. audiences, Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, an Academy Award nominee for best foreign language film, is going to feel more like a history lesson than a movie.


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