Advantages: Acting, direction; moral courage of characters; lessons resonate even more strongly today. Disadvantages: None.
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Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friends, Christophe Probst, Willi Graf and Alexander Schmorling, were mostly medical students (Sophie was a student of philosophy and biology) at Ludwigs-Maximilians Universität München (Ludwig-Maximilian University). Together with their philosophy professor, Kurt Huber, they formed the core group of a loose, underground resistance movement that distributed leaflets critical of the Nazi government ... ...18 February 1943, Hans and Sophie decided to take a bolder and much more dangerous step in their consciousness-raising: they would put out the latest leaflet in the daytime, in the halls of the university. It is Sophie’s last-minute gesture (due either to ‘high spirits or stupidity’, as Sophie Scholl is supposed to have explained it later) before they hurriedly try to blend in with the students pouring out of the classrooms that will ...
zerbine28 27.06.2008
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Advantages: based on a true story Disadvantages: subtitled
...countries fighting at that time. Sophie scholl and her brother Hans wrote letters, protesting in a way for germany to give up and explaing all the bad things that have happened, for example she had training to be a nurse and so saw mentally ill children being put to death by gas. The film is subtitled so that makes it harder to keep up but the plot is not as involved as you would think so realising what is gong on is simple. Sophie shares a cell ... ...the Prison, Sophie is summoned for questioning almost every day but in the end her brother confesses so the must also do so. She her brother and another man are all executed at the end by a gullotine right at the very end it explains how in WW2 scandanavians sent all these letters to england who in turn let them all go over the town that they flew over. ...
amibovered13 23.10.2006
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