By: Nick Lacey

Nick Lacey — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:21:20 +0000

I agree it’s an intensely moving film. It dramatises the strength of will required to stick to your principles whatever the circumstances. However, the individual needs the ‘collective mass’ to resist the tyrants and it was the failure of the German people to stand up to the Nazis that precipitated the War. The characterisation of Sophie’s interrogator, however, gives an understated insight into why many ordinary people collaborated. It is the ‘strength’ of fascism that it guides people who don’t want to think for themselves (a bit like religion). It also offers ‘certainty’ which is especially attractive in uncertain times.

The judge, the representative of Nazi bile, was the double of Norman Tebbit – a terrific piece of casting.

Comments on: Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage (The Last Days, Germany 2005)

By: Nick Lacey