The film is correctly based on true events and interviews with witness. The picture is excellently played by a magnificent though unknown plethora of German actors as Julia Jentsch(The downfall),Fabian Hinrichs and Alexander Held(The list Schlinder) .It's one of the films that nowadays deal to describe the Nazi time from a German point of sight, such as : Stauffemberg and The Downfall. The motion picture was nominated for Academy Award to the best film in language no English.Besides obtained prize in Berlin to the best actress(Jentsch) and the best director(Marc Rothemund) and European Academy prize to the best actress and the best director.
The real deeds are the following : The brothers Sophie(Julia Jentsch) and Hans Scholl(Fabian Hinrichs) were a martyrs of the anti-Nazi movement.Both became students at the University of Munich,where the movement for a revolt against Hitler was especially pronounced.Hans was a medical student and Sophie majored in Biology.Encouraged by Dr Kurt Huber, a teacher of philosophy,they were instrumental in organizing a resistance group known as the ¨White Rose¨, a organization of students oppose to Hitler and the Nazi regime.It propose ¨to knock down the iron wall of fear and terror¨and ¨To strive for the renewal of the mortally wounded German spirit ¨.They kept in close touch with similar groups of students at other universities.Using small duplicating machines,the students(among others Florian Stetter played by Christoph Probst) defied an enormously powerful state apparatus.The password White Rose was designed to symbolize a Christian spirit which love everything that was beautiful and noble and opposed the dictatorship of evil in National Socialist Germany.In mid-1943,the brothers,helped by others students,took part in a demonstration on the streets of Munich,the first protest of its kind.They also dropped leaflets from balcony of the University's inner court.The professor Kurt Huber drafted a leaflet that was scattered and said : ¨In the name of German youth we demand of Hitler that he return to us the personal freedom which is the most valuable possession of each German,and of which he has cheated us in the lowest possible manner ¨.The Scholls were reported to the Gestapo about the handbills by a building superintendent.Both were arrested,along with four others ,and brought before the People's Court.After a hasty trial the Scholls were sentenced to death. Sophie appeared in court with a broken leg ,resulting from her interrogation by Gestapo agents(an inquisitive inspector well interpreted by Alexander Held).She hobbled to her death on the scaffold,his brother Hans was executed the same day.The brothers along with the professor Kurt Huber were beheaded.
The real deeds are the following : The brothers Sophie(Julia Jentsch) and Hans Scholl(Fabian Hinrichs) were a martyrs of the anti-Nazi movement.Both became students at the University of Munich,where the movement for a revolt against Hitler was especially pronounced.Hans was a medical student and Sophie majored in Biology.Encouraged by Dr Kurt Huber, a teacher of philosophy,they were instrumental in organizing a resistance group known as the ¨White Rose¨, a organization of students oppose to Hitler and the Nazi regime.It propose ¨to knock down the iron wall of fear and terror¨and ¨To strive for the renewal of the mortally wounded German spirit ¨.They kept in close touch with similar groups of students at other universities.Using small duplicating machines,the students(among others Florian Stetter played by Christoph Probst) defied an enormously powerful state apparatus.The password White Rose was designed to symbolize a Christian spirit which love everything that was beautiful and noble and opposed the dictatorship of evil in National Socialist Germany.In mid-1943,the brothers,helped by others students,took part in a demonstration on the streets of Munich,the first protest of its kind.They also dropped leaflets from balcony of the University's inner court.The professor Kurt Huber drafted a leaflet that was scattered and said : ¨In the name of German youth we demand of Hitler that he return to us the personal freedom which is the most valuable possession of each German,and of which he has cheated us in the lowest possible manner ¨.The Scholls were reported to the Gestapo about the handbills by a building superintendent.Both were arrested,along with four others ,and brought before the People's Court.After a hasty trial the Scholls were sentenced to death. Sophie appeared in court with a broken leg ,resulting from her interrogation by Gestapo agents(an inquisitive inspector well interpreted by Alexander Held).She hobbled to her death on the scaffold,his brother Hans was executed the same day.The brothers along with the professor Kurt Huber were beheaded.