The White Rose

AWARDS

SILVER AWARD, OUTSTANDING FEATURE FILM German Film Awards

SELECTED SCREENINGS

Washington Jewish Film Festival (2009)
Karakare Film Days, Istanbul, Turkey (2008)
NCJF Jewish Film Festival (2006)
San Diego Jewish Film Festival (2004)

Lena Stolze (The Nasty Girl) stars in this acclaimed feature 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 distributed anti-Hitler literature in a resistance effort which 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due to an epilogue which pointedly observed that the legal judgment condemning the White Rose society had never been rescinded.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

"honesty, urgency, and emotional power."
- Janet Maslin, New York Times

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INSTITUTIONAL USE

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ALSO DIRECTED BY MICHAEL VERHOEVEN

My Mother's Courage

The Nasty Girl

The Legend of Mrs. Goldman and the Almighty God

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