AWARDS
OUTSTANDING FEATURE FILM, SILVER AWARD
German Film Awards
BEST ACTRESS, GOLD AWARD German
Film Awards (Lena Stolze)
NORTH
AMERICAN FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
Washington Jewish Film Festival (2009)
Karakare Film Days, Istanbul (2008)
Virginia
Holocaust Museum (2007)
Berlin and Beyond, San Francisco (2006)
NCJF's
Jewishfilm.2006 at Harvard Film Archive (2006)
San Diego Jewish Film Festival (2004)
Montreal Jewish Film Festival (2003)
Detroit Jewish Film Festival (2003)
Mizner Park Cinema; Boca Raton, FL (2002)
Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival (2001)
Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival (2000)
Carnegie Museum of Art (2000)
Maine Jewish Film Festival (1999)
Lena Stolze
(The
Nasty Girl) stars
as Sophie Scholl in Michael Verhoeven’s acclaimed feature film based
on the true story of five German students and their professor who formed
a secret society dedicated to protesting the Nazi regime.
Known
collectively as the "White Rose," the Munich-based group which
included siblings Sophie and Hans Scholl, distributed anti-Hitler literature
in a resistance effort that cost them their lives.
Initially,
the German government refused to allow the film to be shown abroad due
to an epilogue which pointedly observed that the legal judgment condemning
the White Rose society had never been rescinded. Ultimately, the political
controversy surrounding Verhoeven's film directly caused the German government
to officially invalidate the Nazi "People's Court" system that
sentenced the group to death.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"An extraordinary
film! Quite simply the finest German movie since Das
Boot."
- Newhouse Newspapers
"A great
story and an important one."
- The Village Voice
"Mr.
Verhoeven imbues Sophie's story with a warmth and richness of detail."
- Janet Maslin, New York Times
CREDITS
Starring Lena
Stolze (Sophie Scholl), Wulf Kessler (Hans Scholl), Oliver Siebert (Alex
Schmorell), Ulrich Tuker (Willi Graf), Werner Stocker (Christoph Probst),
Martin Benrath (Professor Huber)
Directed by
Michael Verhoeven
Screenplay by
Michael Verhoeven and Mario Krebs
Director of
Cinematography, Axel De Roche
Edited by Barbara
Hennings
ALSO DIRECTED BY
MICHAEL VERHOEVEN
My
Mother's Courage
The
Nasty Girl
The
Legend of Mrs. Goldman and the Almighty God
Human
Failure
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