Sometimes you just feel like watching a movie that makes you believe that one person can make a stand or even impact modern history.
This is the true story of a German university student who along with her brother Hans were apart of a secret movement called the ‘White Rose’ that distributed pamphlets’ speaking out against the Nazi regime. This movie covers her capture and interrogation over six days.
What I liked about this film is that the characters are simple yet powerful. Sophie could have been your neighbour, or just someone on the street, but it was her character under pressure that made her extraordinary.
This film is not like Schlinder’s List which is an emotional rollercoaster of the victims’ plight; in comparison this film is quite unemotional whilst still being powerful. There is no escape or tension filled action scenes it’s merely an individual’s expression of conviction through words and action.
The actress who portrays Sophie is wonderful in the subtleness of her portrayal. This film received three Lolas (German Oscars) including the Audience Award and Best Actress Award to Jentsch for her brilliant characterization of the title role. The film also won two Silver Bears for Best Director and Best Actress at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival and was Germany’s official Foreign Language Film selection for the 2005 Academy Awards.
I’ve been recommending this terrific film to everyone I meet. I would have written a review myself, but I went through a rash of German films, and everybody was getting annoyed at me. Alas!
Glad you liked it.
The scene when she is interrogated for the first time by the German officer, who eventually comes to admire her, is so well written and conceived, that you find yourself wondering who is interrogating who.
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