A well-intended commemoration of a courageous young woman, an idealistic and true heroine, the 21-year-old Munich University student Sophie Scholl (Julia Jentsch), the sole female member of the White Rose anti-Nazi resistance group, who put her life on the line to back her convictions. German director Marc Rothemund and screenwriter Fred Breinersdorfer base it on historical fact and courtroom transcripts to reconstruct the last six days in the life of one of the few Germans who dared protest in a non-violent way the Nazi war machine and is now considered a national heroine. Her gripping story has been told twice before on German film in 1982, Michael Verhoeven’s “White Rose” and Percy Adlon’s “Five Last Days.” What gives this film additional power is the use of court transcripts discovered in 1990 stashed away in East German archives. These make possible the actual records of the long and grueling interrogation with the clever Gestapo officer Robert Mohr (Alexander Held) that Sophie had to endure, where it’s shown how even facing certain death she never backed down.