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  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 2 h
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 2 h

Summary 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, ...

Directed By: Marc Rothemund

Written By: Fred Breinersdorfer

  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 2 h
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 2 h

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 30 Critic Reviews
76
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 23 User Ratings
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Summary 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, ...

Directed By: Marc Rothemund

Written By: Fred Breinersdorfer

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 30 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 30 Critic Reviews
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It's an authentic, harrowing tale of heroism.
By Michael Sragow FULL REVIEW
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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.
By Tasha Robinson FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 23 User Ratings
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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.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Connie Ogle FULL REVIEW
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Production Company ARTE, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Broth Film, Goldkind Filmproduktion, SWR
Release Date Feb 17, 2006
Duration 2 h
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline In 1943, one young woman stood up to the Nazis, her courage made her a legend, this is her story . . .
Website http://www.2-1-0.gr/?title=tt0426578
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
European Film Awards
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations
German Film Awards
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations

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