Sophie Scholl - The last days
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Sophie Scholl - The last days |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 116 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 10 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marc Rothemund |
| script | Fred Breinersdorfer |
| production |
Christoph Müller , Sven Burgemeister , Marc Rothemund , Fred Breinersdorfer |
| music |
Reinhold Heil , Johnny Klimek |
| camera | Martin Langer |
| cut | Hans Funck |
| occupation | |
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Sophie Scholl - The Last Days is a German film by director Marc Rothemund from 2005 based on a script by Fred Breinersdorfer . He describes the last days in the life of Sophie Scholl . The film was awarded the Silver Bear at the Berlinale 2005 for best director and for best leading actress ( Julia Jentsch ). The foreign representation of the German film industry, German Films , selected the drama in September 2005 as an official candidate for an Oscar nomination in the category Best Foreign Language Film .
The Oscar nomination was announced on January 31, 2006 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , but the film came away empty-handed at the award ceremony.
action
The members of the White Rose resistance group are working on copies of their sixth leaflet in a Munich basement. They copied more of it than they can distribute through the post. Hans , Sophie's brother, therefore suggests distributing the extra sheets at the university the next day . Since Willi Graf thinks this is too dangerous, Hans announces that he will take full responsibility, and Sophie also declares her support for the execution on the grounds that a woman will probably attract less attention from the security staff.
The next day, Sophie and Hans go into the main building of the university during the lectures and put the leaflets out near the respective lecture hall doors. On the third floor, they put the remaining leaflets on the balustrade. Sophie finally pushes it over the edge so that the leaflets fall into the atrium. At that moment the doors of the lecture halls open and the students pour out. Sophie and Hans think they are safe in the crowd, but were observed by the pedell Jakob Schmid during their action . This holds them up until the police arrive and arrest the siblings.
They are taken to the Wittelsbacher Palais in Munich ( Gestapo prison), where Sophie is interrogated by the Gestapo investigator Robert Mohr . At first she claims to be an apolitical person, that she and her brother have nothing to do with the leaflets, which she only noticed in the hall and thrown over the balustrade because it was in her nature to play pranks. During the questioning, she explained the empty suitcase by visiting her parents in Ulm , from where she wanted to take clean laundry. Her representations seem plausible, which is why she should be released again.
Shortly before her discharge papers are approved, however, the order arrives not to let her go. Investigations have since shown that Sophie and Hans are indeed responsible for the distribution of this and other leaflets. Sophie as well as Hans confess. In order to protect the other members of the White Rose, they claim that the production and distribution of the thousands of leaflets was their work alone.
After further grueling interrogations, Sophie finally says she is ready to take all the guilt and continues to refuse to reveal the names of her accomplices. Mohr then ended the interrogation. Sophie, her brother Hans and Christoph Probst are accused of high treason , the degradation of military strength and treasonous favoring the enemy . In the show trial before the People's Court , Christoph Probst was the first to answer before the chairman, Roland Freisler . Probst's requests to spare him because of his three children are contemptuously rejected by Freisler.
During Freisler's increasingly impatient questioning, Hans is yelled at and abused by the latter, but Hans remains calm. Hans says the defeat of Nazi Germany is inevitable because of the alliance between Russia, Britain and the United States. All that Hitler still does is to prolong the war. He, Sophie and Christoph Probst are only on trial because Hitler is afraid of their opinion. Sophie testifies that many people agree with what the White Rose said and wrote but do not have the courage to voice their thoughts. Freisler announces the verdicts. All three defendants are found guilty and sentenced to death. In her final declaration, Sophie says to Freisler: "You will soon be standing where we are now."
Although Sophie was officially told that an execution would not take place within 99 days of the sentencing, she learns that it will be executed that day. She is struggling to maintain her composure and is taken to a room where she can write her will. Finally she learns that she has a visit from her parents , who are behind her. Sophie promises her mother that they will meet again in heaven when the priest arrives and she receives God's blessing. Then she is taken to a cell again, where Hans and Christoph Probst are also waiting for their sentence to be carried out. They are allowed to smoke one last cigarette and hug. Finally, Sophie is led to the guillotine by the executioners and beheaded. Before the end credits, the screen goes black and you can hear Hans Scholl and Christoph Probst also die under the guillotine, before Hans Scholl is executed, he yells out loud "Long live freedom".
background
The recordings that take place in the courtroom were made in the small conference room of Munich City Hall, the interrogation scenes in the Bavaria film studios .
script
Fred Breinersdorfer's script is based on the interrogation protocols of Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst, which were stored in the Stasi archives in the GDR until the fall of the Berlin Wall and have only been accessible to historians since 1990.
Reviews
"Not least because of the great play of the actors, a harrowing contemporary document."
"The result is a fascinating chamber play (similar to ' Der Totmacher '), which is particularly convincing due to the strong actors - above all Julia Jentsch, who was rightly chosen at the Berlinale - and is therefore still shaking today."
"The film deliberately distinguishes itself from the usual ways of depicting everyday Nazi life, rather it is about the courageous behavior of the young woman who insists on her attitude and does everything to protect her friends and family."
Awards
For her portrayal of Scholl, Jentsch won the European Film Awards as best actress , the German Film Prize (Lolas) and the Silver Bear as best actress at the Berlin International Film Festival . The film was also nominated for an Oscar in the category of best foreign language film .
- Silver Bear: Best Director - Marc Rothemund
- Silver Bear: Best Actress - Julia Jentsch
- Ecumenical Jury Prize
- Best young actor: Fabian Hinrichs
- German Film Award 2005
- Best feature film in silver
- Best leading actress: Julia Jentsch
- Guild Film Award 2005
- Film award in gold
- Hamptons International Film Festival 2005
- Audience Award (Best Film)
- Best actress: Julia Jentsch
- Audience Award for Best Director: Marc Rothemund
- Audience Award for Best Actor: Julia Jentsch
- Bavarian Film Prize 2006
- Best film, producer award: Sven Burgemeister, Christoph Müller, Fred Breinersdorfer , Marc Rothemund
- Best production design
- Best actress: Julia Jentsch
- Best German film
- Best German actress: Julia Jentsch
- Best German director: Marc Rothemund
Stage versions
On February 28, 2008, the premiere of a stage version took place at the Schauspielhaus Salzburg under the direction of Betty Hensel, who had also made the dramatization of Breinersdorfer's script together with Breinersdorfer. An English theater version of the script by Fred Breinersdorfer, adapted by Charlie Perham, was performed at the ADC Theater Cambridge on October 16, 2012. On October 11th, the Teatri in Jönköping performed the Swedish version of Christian Arin for the first time.
literature
- Fred Breinersdorfer (ed.): Sophie Scholl - The last days. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16609-1 .
- Ellen Martin: "Sophie Scholl - the last days" and "Downfall". Feature films and their perspective mediation of the Nazi era. In: PÄD Forum: Teaching-Education 1 (2006), pp. 29–33.
- Benedikt Tondera: The construction of historical biographies in film. "Sophie Scholl - The Last Days". In: History in Science and Education 59 (2008), Issue 10, pp. 551-564.
Web links
- Sophie Scholl - The Final Days in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sophie Scholl - The last few days in the online film database
- Sophie Scholl - The last few days at filmportal.de
- Film booklet: Sophie Scholl - The last days at the Federal Agency for Civic Education
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Sophie Scholl - The Last Days . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2005 (PDF; test number: 100 000 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Sophie Scholl - The last days . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ styleonemagazin.de: Spieltrieb: Michelle Barthel and Jannik Schümann convince in a game about love, drives, sex and power that is getting out of control ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Film tip / film review, Torsten Lorenz, July 24, 2013
- ↑ Sophie Scholl - The Last Days. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Sophie Scholl - The Last Days. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on September 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Lothar Jahn: Courage is required - acting like Sophie Scholl. In: Deer crossing. May 2, 2005. Retrieved October 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Betty Hensel Staging , accessed on October 7, 2012
- ↑ World premiere at the Schauspielhaus Salzburg ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : SOPHIE SCHOLL - THE LAST DAYS, accessed October 7, 2012
