Sophie Scholl - The Final DaysGermany
2005, 117min.
 Script: Fred Breinersdorfer, Dir.: Marc Rothemund, Dir. of Phot.: Martin Langer, Compos.: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, Prod. Design: Jana Karen, Sound: Daniel Dietenberger, Alexander Saal, Edit.: Hans Funck, Prod.: Fred Breinersdorfer, Sven Burgemeister, Christoph Müller, Marc Rothemund.
Cast: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Gerald Alexander Held, Johanna Gastdorf, André Hennicke, Florian Stetter, Johannes Suhm, Maximilian Brückner, Jörg Hube.
Spring 1943. The Germans have lost the battle for Stalingrad and, in Munich, members of the White Rose infiltrate the city with a wave upon wave of anti-Hitler activities and slogans. Sophie and Hans Scholl are busy distributing flyers in the main hall of Munich University when they are observed and arrested. From this point on, the film adopts Sophie's perspective to tell the story of the interrogations that followed their arrest, as well as the brother and sister's trial and pronouncement of their sentence.
Awards
Oscar Nominated (2006), Bavarian Film Award - Best Production (2006), Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Silver Berlin Bear (Berlinale,2005), European Film Award - Best Actress (2005), German Film of the Year - Audience Award, Film Award in Gold - Best Actress, Film Award in Silver - Outstanding Feature Film (German Film Awards,2005), German Film Critics Award - Best Actress (2006).
| Rothemund, Marc  Born 1968.
Has worked as an assistant director for such directors as Helmut Dietl, Dominik Graf and Gérard Corbiau. He began collaborating with screenwriter Fred Breinersdorfer in 1997 when they wrote two episodes of the television crime series Anwalt Abel. His debut as a film director received the Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Director in 1998. His second feature film, Harte Jungs, which was released in 1999, drew attendance figures of 1.7 million, making it one of the most successful German productions at the box office that year.
Filmography
Anwalt Abel - Die Spur des Mädchenmörders (1998, TV), Anwalt Abel - Todesurteil für eine Dirne (1998, TV), Love Scenes from Planet Earth (Das Merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit, 1998), Just the Two of Us (Harte Jungs, 2000), Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt, (2002, TV), Das Duo - Der Liebhaber (2003, TV), Sophie Scholl - The Final Days (Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage, 2005).
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