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Release Date:
24 September 1982 (West Germany)
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Plot:
During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decesions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government...
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Awards:
2 wins
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1 nomination
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Additional Details
Also Known As:
The White Rose (International: English title)
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Runtime:
Germany:123 min | USA:108 min
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1
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Trivia:
The speech given by
Reinhold Olszewski (Gauleiter Giesler) is word-for-word the same as the actual speech given by the Bavarian Gauleiter in 1943.
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Quotes:
Gauleiter Giesler:
You women, when you graduate, leave the university to the men! Your degree, presenting to the fuherer each year a healthy son.
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What I like most about this film is its sobriety, dispassion and sophistication in tackling the topic. There's no idealisation of the resistance group. It is based on precisely researched historical facts which successfully moves over clichés and false glorifications. Director Michael Verhoeven makes clear, that Sophie and Hans Scholl were neither longing for death nor wanted to set a beacon by giving themselves in custody. As incredibly brave and encouraged they were, they wanted to live most of all. The film also prompts questions of resistance fighters in a terror regime: Is there a right to resist against the majority of people? Is violence justified? Is it allowed to carry on sabotage which threatens the population? Is it allowed to wish a defeat for the own country? Is it worth anything to risk one's own life?