Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

The true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in the multi-award winning drama SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS. An Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, 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.

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine, they call themselves the White Rose. Its sole female member, Sophie Scholl is captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus with her brother Hans. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to the White Rose, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility that is both haunting and timeless.

"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." -- Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

“I loved it! Shocking and compelling. It’s early, but it could be one of the best films of 2006!” —Jeffrey Lyons, NBC’s REEL TALK

“Harrowing! Heroic! Exhilarating! Inspiring! Riveting!” —Kevin Crust, LOS ANGELES Times

WINNER
Silver Bear
Berlin Int’l Film Festival
Best Director and
Best Actress

WINNER
LOLA
GERMAN FILM AWARDS
Audience Award and
Best Actress

WINNER
EUROPEAN
FILM AWARDS
Best Actress