While I’m on a roll of movie recommendations, and because I recently recommended Barbara, I thought I’d also recommend Sophie Scholl: The Final Days. I haven’t seen it in several years now (it’s a 2005 film), but it’s still near the top of my list when I think of films that deeply moved me. Extremely gripping.
The year is 1943 and Adolf Hitler’s devastating march across Europe has resulted in the formation of the White Rose, an underground resistance movement born in Munich and dedicated to the fall of the Third Reich. Despite being one of the only female members in the White Rose movement, Sophie Scholl’s conviction is strong and her will unbreakable. Eventually arrested by the Gestapo for distributing pamphlets on campus alongside her brother Hans, Sophie boldly maintains her ground by calling for freedom and personal responsibility and never once backing down even in the face of certain, inescapable death.
