Die Weiße Rose (film)

Die Weiße Rose (The White Rose) is a 1982 CCC Film production about the White Rose resistance to the Nazis led by university students in Munich in 1942–1943 whose members were caught and executed in February 1943, shortly after the German capitulation at Stalingrad.

For other uses, see White Rose (disambiguation).
Die Weiße Rose
DVD cover
Directed byMichael Verhoeven
Produced byArtur Brauner, Hans Prescher, Dietmar Schings, Michael Verhoeven
Written by
Starring
Distributed byTeleCulture (USA)
Release date
  • 24 September 1982 (1982-09-24)
Running time
123 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Actress Lena Stolze, who played Sophie Scholl, reprised that role in The Last Five Days, also released in 1982. That film was later remade as Sophie Scholl: The Final Days in 2005.

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decision that outlawed the White Rose group effectively banned foreign distribution of the film, and this had to be rescinded before it could be released.[1]

References
  1. "Search for " White Rose"". Coalition for Jewish Learning. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
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