Die Weisse rose

1942: A small resistance group of students from Munich University forms - the White Rose. They no longer want to stand idly by while they all support the inhumane system of National Socialism and the war through their silence and call for resistance in secretly printed leaflets. While Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans distribute the remaining copies of the sixth White Rose leaflet at the university, they are discovered and arrested. Without regard for the threat of the death penalty, the siblings take full responsibility for the group's actions in the following interrogations, so as not to betray their convictions or the other members of the White Rose. They want to protect their friends at all costs. Together with young people from South Tyrol, director Philipp Jescheck traces the members of the White Rose: their courage to stand up for their own ideals and ideas as well as their dreams and fears. How were these young people able to express in their acts of resistance what so many others did not dare to do? Even today, the young generation is looking for its own ways to become politically active - Fridays for Future is just one of numerous examples. What do resistance and young protest movements mean today - 100 years after Sophie Scholl's birth year?