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The White Rose
(1982)
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Lena Stolze | ... | |
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Wulf Kessler | ... | |
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Oliver Siebert | ... | |
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Werner Stocker | ... | |
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Martin Benrath | ... |
Prof. Kurt Huber
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Anja Kruse | ... | |
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Ulf-Jürgen Wagner | ... |
Fritz
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Mechthild Reinders | ... | |
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Peter Kortenbach | ... |
Falk Harnack
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Gerhard Friedrich | ... | |
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Sabine Kretzschmar | ... | |
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Heinz Simon Keller | ... |
Werner Scholl
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Susanne Seuffert | ... |
Inge Scholl
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Christine Schwarz | ... |
Elisabeth Scholl
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During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decesions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a newsletter that is secretly distributed to the student body. At first small in numbers and fearful of discovery, the White Rose begins to gain massive support after a Nazi Gauleiter nearly incites a student riot after a provokative speech. At this point, the matter is taken over by the German Gestapo, who pledge to hunt down and destroy the members of the White Rose. Written by Anthony Hughes <husnock31@hotmail.com>
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West GermanyLanguage:
GermanRelease Date:
24 September 1982 (West Germany) See more »Also Known As:
The White Rose See more »Company Credits
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Central Cinema Company Film (CCC), Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), Sentana Filmproduktion See more »
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The meaning and relevance of this film's title "The White Rose", is, as according to book 'Picture this! - a guide to over 300 environmentally, socially, and politically relevant films and videos ' by Sky Hiatt, the name of "an underground, anti-fascist newspaper printed and distributed by university students in Germany during World War II." See more »Quotes
Gauleiter Giesler: You women, when you graduate, leave the university to the men! Your degree, presenting to the fuherer each year a healthy son.See more »
What I like most about this film is its sobriety, dispassion and sophistication in tackling the topic. There's no idealisation of the resistance group. It is based on precisely researched historical facts which successfully moves over clichés and false glorifications. Director Michael Verhoeven makes clear, that Sophie and Hans Scholl were neither longing for death nor wanted to set a beacon by giving themselves in custody. As incredibly brave and encouraged they were, they wanted to live most of all. The film also prompts questions of resistance fighters in a terror regime: Is there a right to resist against the majority of people? Is violence justified? Is it allowed to carry on sabotage which threatens the population? Is it allowed to wish a defeat for the own country? Is it worth anything to risk one's own life?