On Feb. 18, 1943, Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans, students at Munich University, were arrested for distributing anti-Nazi
propaganda on campus. Considering what the Nazis were doing at that time to people whose only crime was being Jewish, you can imagine how they treated people who actually broke the law. This was not an administration that responded well to criticism. "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days" uses transcripts and testimonies to recreate those events, centering around Sophie's interrogation by Nazi officials and her stay in a strangely hospitable German prison. One has a sinking feeling about how it's going to turn out, but there is still suspense, and the intrigue in those interviews is strong. Sophie (Julia Jentsch) and Hans (Fabian Hinrichs) are part of an underground resistance moviement called the White Rose, responsible for printing fliers that decry the ongoing war. Their group believes German soldiers are dying needlessly, and that the only reasonable answer is for Hitler to surrender and end the war. That's not to mention the atrocities being commit by the Germans against the civilians in lands they have conquered.
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