Synopsis
This is the first comprehensive documentary portrayal of DIE WEISSE ROSE: the movement led by Munich students and their spirit of resistance to the Nazi regime. Companions, girl-friends, brothers and sisters tell the story of how they supported the distribution of tracts, how they survived Gestapo interrogation and courtroom trials in the Nazis' Volksgerichtshof. These people are writing pages of German history. In impressive manner, with a delicate aesthetic sensitivity, the personal statements of the participants are combined with original documents. In large part previously unpublished photos from their youth, photos of where these acts were perpetrated, of the Gestapo officers, judges and executioners add to an authentic portrait of the Weisse Rose that takes us beyond the legend. Photos with Traute Lafrenz as a filmstill and a portrait of her in1942 and as well as Geschwister Scholl and Christoph Probst, Ostbahnhof. Production: Katrin Seybold Film GmbH Adalbertstr. 28 80799 Munich, Germany tel.: +49 (0) 89-348619 fax: +49 (0) 89-333902 cell: +49 (0) 171-5711855 info@ksfilm.de
