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Excellent movie, 2 August 2000
Author: action-6 from Froland, Norway

"Die Weisse Rose"(The White Rose)is a movie about resistance against Hitler and The Nazi-pary("NSDAP")INSIDE Nazi-Germany. It is hard for many people(especially Americans)to believe that not all Germans were Nazis and followed Hitler. The movie is about a resistance group called "The White Rose" at the university in Munich("München" in German), and it also describes how many people didn`t now about what happened at the front, with Russian prisoners-of-war and the jews. Hans and Sophie were brave people who stood up against the Nazi-tyrrany, and the actors in those roles did a very good job. 9/10

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Sad and very well done., 28 September 2004
9/10
Author: Devotchka from Canada

Die Weiße Rose is a sad, touching film. I imagine that it was popular in Europe, but it seems that nearly nobody here has seen it--a shame, really, because it is so good. Yes, there was a resistance in Germany. The movie focuses on the story of two young people involved in said resistance, an attempted feat that makes them seem like heroes to almost everybody on the planet.

But it isn't just the story that's good. That wouldn't be enough, really, since there are lots of movies which take exciting ideas and screw them up horribly. Die Weiße Rose is very well filmed, very subtle and exciting, and very sad.

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unforgettable film honoring once-forgotten heroes, 14 April 2008
9/10
Author: friedman-21 from United States

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Harrowing and unforgettable, this film follows a group of mostly student resistors in Nazi Germany as they discover what their country's regime is doing to war prisoners and to Jews, and try to work out nonviolent ways to get the truth to their compatriots and resist a regime that massacres. The film seems as accurate as re-creations of history get. I had the honor of meeting three survivors of the White Rose once, in Berkeley, California, in 1992 or so when they accompanied a showing of panels and photos about the group. It is extraordinary that there was this resistance--one with much that those opposed to today's wars could learn from and emulate--yet nearly no one knew of this for decades. I remember in 1969 someone speaking of a thesis about "resistors in Nazi Germany," and when I laughed at such a seeming oxymoron, he told me, "Yes we laugh because we haven't heard of them--because nearly all of them died." See the film and see one form that courage can take.

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Engrossing!, 23 July 2000
Author: Balberith from Another Land

This was a great film about brave students in Nazi Germany who risk their lives and start a student rebellion. Many people do not realize that there was a resistance movement in Germany. This film reminds us that not all Germans loved hitler and the nazis. Sophie and Hans Scholl were two brave persons!

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Resistance, 7 September 2009
9/10
Author: zolaaar from Berlin, GER

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?

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Xenophobia--The Final Solution, 9 November 2008
10/10
Author: W_Dougherty from United States

"The White Rose" identifies the international effects of post-WWI. Germany sought purity within their culture to counter suffrage imposed by conquering nations. 'The Hun' was hog tied to keep the world safe while WWII developed. In this atmosphere, Nazism flourished with the rise of a gifted communicator, Der Fuehrer--The Leader. In the form of ethnocentrism white roses blossomed. "The White Rose" was a world tragedy not just a nationalistic movement. However, within the hell of Nazi Germany a few youngsters and their academia professors attempted to communicate the reality of hell on earth, and they failed. I have this movie in Beta video format and await a DVD replacement. I was introduced to this film while I was stationed in West Germany in 1982 when it won numerous European awards. It's a classic international film worth owning. I write this review on November 9, 2008 in remembrance of Kristalnacht, November 8, 1938 or The Night of Broken Glass.

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