Die Weiße Rose (film)

Die Weiße Rose
Die Weiße Rose DVD cover
Directed by	Michael Verhoeven
Produced by	Artur Brauner, Hans Prescher, Dietmar Schings, Michael Verhoeven
Written by	Mario Krebs, Michael Verhoeven
Starring	Lena Stolze, Wulf Kessler
Distributed by	TeleCulture (USA)
Release date(s)	September 24, 1982
Running time	123 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Die Weiße Rose (The White Rose) is a 1982 German film about the White Rose resistance to the Nazi authorities led by a group of Christian students in Munich in 1942-1943 whose members were caught and executed in February 1943, shortly after the German capitulation at Stalingrad. The film pre-dates, by two decades, the film, Sophie Scholl: The Final Days.

Director and stars

Director Michael Verhoeven released another film dealing with the Nazi era, The Nasty Girl. Lena Stolze, the actress portraying Sophie Scholl, one of the White Rose participants, performed the starring role in The Nasty Girl.

Distribution

Distribution of the film beyond West Germany was delayed. This was because, at the time, the wartime German legal decision that outlawed the White Rose group effectively banned foreign distribution of the film, and this had to be rescinded before it could be released.^[1]

See also

• Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage (2005)

References

1. ^ [1]

External links

• Die Weiße Rose at the Internet Movie Database