Die Weiße Rose (film)

The white rose is a film by German director Michael Verhoeven and was the most successful German film of the year 1982.

Action

Munich 1942. The student group White Rose, among them Hans and Sophie Scholl, with leaflets calling for resistance against Hitler and his regime. Risking their lives, they bring leaflets in other cities at night and write slogans like " Down with Hitler" on the walls of houses. While pulling the snare of the Gestapo ever closer to the students, they make contact with other resistance groups and even military leaders. In early 1943, proposes to the Gestapo. Hans and Sophie Scholl were arrested in the courtyard of the University of Munich. The People's Court under its chairman freisler they sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out on 22 February 1943.

In the credits, the director points out that the death sentences of the People's Court at the time of completion of the film were still valid. Not until 1998 that the judgments of the People's Court were abolished by the repeal of National Socialist injustice judgments in criminal justice.

Reviews

" Verhoeven makes in his reconstruction Stop glorifying or defamatory theses about the group. He freed them from the whiff of political sectarianism and the fanatical desire for death and interprets the actions of these young people as a clear political reason. The topicality of resistance is unbroken and the critical approach to Yes Man, silent intellectuals and fellow travelers still relevant. "

" A hard-working objectivity and authenticity portrait. Although the film neglects the not insignificant for a part of group religious background and remains formally a conventional dramaturgy arrested, but he creates a serious discussion of the problem of political resistance in Nazi Germany. "

" Documentary film about the circle around the Scholl siblings, exciting and authentic atmosphere of (...). ( Score 2 ½ Stars - above average) "

" Great emotional [ ... ] is omitted in Verhoeven's reconstruction in favor of a documentary approach, which it supplements with thriller elements that act in no way counter-productive in this consistently sought authenticity to the film."

The Film Review Board Wiesbaden gave the production the predicate particularly valuable.

Awards

DVD Release

  • The White Rose. World Cinema Home Entertainment 2004

Film documentaries

  • The little sister - The White Rose: A Legacy. TV documentary by Michael Verhoeven, Germany 2002, 45 minutes
1982 in film Screenplay Film score Werner Stocker (actor) People's Court (Germany) Roland Freisler Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 1983 Integrated Authority File
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