World War II · Film · 2005
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage
A 21-year-old student is caught scattering anti-Nazi leaflets at her Munich university and spends five days facing a Gestapo interrogator, then a show trial, without giving up her convictions.
Where it happened
Follow the story across 3 places.
Stop 1: University of Munich atrium
Key location
Sophie and Hans leave stacks of leaflets outside the lecture halls, and Sophie pushes the last ones off the balcony into the atrium.
Stop 2: Palace of Justice, Munich
Before a screaming judge and a courtroom of uniforms, Sophie calmly tells the court it will soon stand where she stands.
Stop 3: Stadelheim Prison, Munich
Allowed a last visit from her parents, Sophie prepares to face the sentence the same day.
What really happened
The White Rose was a small group of Munich students and one professor who wrote and distributed six leaflets in 1942 and 1943 denouncing the Nazi regime, the murder of the Jews and the war. After the defeat at Stalingrad, siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl scattered copies of the sixth leaflet in the atrium of the University of Munich on 18 February 1943 and were reported by a custodian.
After days of interrogation by Gestapo officer Robert Mohr, they and Christoph Probst were tried before the People's Court under Roland Freisler on 22 February and beheaded at Stadelheim prison that afternoon. The film's dialogue draws on interrogation records that became accessible after German reunification. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Full details
- Original title
- Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage
- Directed by
- Marc Rothemund
- Countries
- Germany
- Languages
- German
- Released
- 2005
- Period
- –
- Theaters of war
- Western Europe
- Themes
- Resistance
- Biography
- True story
