AMD 4, Yuntao Chen

For this week's AMD, I watched the movie ,, Sophie Scholl, die letzten Tage''.

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This movie tells the story of the last few days of Sophie Scholl and his brother before excution, after they were arrested when distributing anti-nazi and anti-war leaflets in their university. Artistically speaking this was a very well shot movie, and the performance of the main actress Julia Jentsch (as Sophie Scholl) gave the audiences a chance to feel the fear and internal struggles of a young lady facing death.

Here are some of my favorite lines in the movie:

Das Gesetz ändert sich, das Gewissen nicht. (The law will change, but conscience will not.)

... dass kein Mensch, egal unter welchen Umständen, ein Recht hat, ein Urteil zu fällen... (nobody, under any circumstance, has the right to judge (another soul) )

Bald werden Sie hier stehen, wo wir jetzt stehen. (Soon you will stand at where we are standing now.)

After watching the movie, I did some additional research on this story. Apparently the acts of the Scholl siblings are very highly regarded today in Germany. In a 2003 poll by ZDF, they ranked 4th as the top ten most famous Germans (from wikipedia.org).I can understand that because I myself was also quite moved by their courageous acts.