A Movie Recommendation!

[MarianJack]

Since (until yesterday) I haven't posted here since Christ was a child, I think that this is an important movie.

I just finished watching "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days" on Netflix streaming. It's a very powerful movie about the young lady who, with her brother Hans, was a leader of the White Rose Society in Nazi Germany. I heartily recommend this movie. It's subtitled and shown in it's native German. I have every confidence that most, if not all, DUers can get A LOT out of this movie. Also, unlike most teabaggers, DUers can read, so I don't expect that the subtitles will be a problem.

PEACE!

[myrna minx]

1. Thanks for the suggestion. I've noticed that on Netflix, so I'll put it in my

queue. :hi:

[MarianJack]

2. You Won't Be Sorry!

[bif]

3. Saw it a few weeks ago.

Netflix though I'd rate it 4.5 or so. And they were right. A couple other good WWII movies you'd like: Zelary. Black Book. Spring 1941. The Tunnel.

[MarianJack]

5. Thanx!

[bikebloke]

4. Saw it a long while back.

Excellent.

[MarianJack]

6. The Actress Playing Sophie...

...was very good!

[bikebloke]

8. Julia Jentsch

I've seen her in other films:

The Edukators
Downfall
I Served the King of England

[siligut]

7. In my que now

Sophie's Scholl came up as a suggestion when I put Downfall into my que. Here is the blurb for Downfall:

Downfall
Der Untergang / The Downfall: Hitler and the End of the Third Reich
(2004) R

After introducing audiences to Adolf Hitler's stenographer, Traudl Junge, in the gripping documentary Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary, director Oliver Hirschbiegel brings Junge to life in this Oscar-nominated drama. With painstaking realism, Hirschbiegel's Best Foreign Language Film contender adopts Junge's (Alexandra Maria Lara) point of view to recreate Hitler's (Bruno Ganz) final 12 days in his Berlin bunker.

If you missed it, scenes from Downfall were recently used to parody Scott Walker's politics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHZkGGr_P7k

[bif]

10. Downfall was very good

Pretty depressing. But very well done.

[Swede]

9. Die Brücke is another good movie.

A very powerful movie.

In the closing days of World War II, a small German town comes into focus as American forces advance in its direction. In the town's school, seven boys - each about 16 years old - are oblivious to the seriousness and dangers of the war, feeling excitement about how close the fighting is getting to them, and they live their lives as normally as they can

Unexpectedly, the boys are recruited into a local army unit, but after only one day in the barracks, the commanding officers receive news that the Americans are approaching, and the garrison is called out. As they prepare to move out, the Kompaniechef, who has been asked by the boys' teacher to keep them out of action, arranges for the youths to be placed in 'defense' of the local bridge (which is strategically unimportant, and which is to be blown up anyway to spare the town the direct effects of the war), under the command of a veteran Unteroffizier (sergeant).



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Br%C3%BCcke_(film)

[txwhitedove]

11. Yes, it was very good. I recommend 'Triage'. Different war, but great.

Christopher Lee is outstanding out of his usual B-movie horror genre.