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Jan 16, 2016akirakato rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is a 2005 German historical drama directed by Marc Rothemund, based on the true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine, Sophie Scholl---the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. Sophia was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich with her brother Hans. As a result, they were both executed by guillotine. Sophie was the daughter of the liberal politician Robert Scholl, an ardent critic of the Nazis. He was mayor of Ingersheim 1917–1920, mayor of Forchtenberg 1920–1930 and lord mayor of Ulm 1945–1948, and co-founded the All-German People's Party in 1952. Following her death, a copy of the sixth leaflet was smuggled out of Germany through Scandinavia to the UK by German jurist Helmuth James Graf von Moltke. Then it was used by the Allied Forces and in mid-1943, they dropped over Germany millions of propaganda copies of the tract, now retitled "The Manifesto of the Students of Munich." The film is a gripping, emotionally-engaging docu-drama.