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The White Rose
(Die weiße Rose)

Screening on Film
Directed by Michael Verhoeven.
With Lena Stolze, Wulf Kessler, Oliver Siebert.
West Germany, 1983, 35mm, color, 108 min.
German with English subtitles.

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due to an epilogue which pointedly observed that the legal judgment condemning the White Rose society had never been rescinded.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.

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