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Dear
SPUC supporter,
Be inspired this January and join us for our popular online Culture Club on Monday 26th January (7.30-9.30pm), where we’ll be opening the year by examining two more powerful works of pro-life interest:
In the 1st half of Culture Club …
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
SPUC’s White Flower Appeal takes place in churches across the country this month, and if you’ve ever wondered how our annual appeal got its name, then you’ll be fascinated by this dramatic movie depiction of the German ‘White Rose’ movement and its courageous young student founder, Sophie Scholl.
Sophie, along with her brother Hans and fellow students, started the White Rose group in 1942 to promote non-violent resistance to the Nazi regime.
In 1943 they were caught distributing leaflets calling for opposition against Hitler. After being arrested by the Gestapo, Sophie and Hans were interrogated, subjected to a show trial, convicted of high treason and executed by guillotine.
The impact of their witness, however, did not end there. After her death, copies of the final White Rose leaflet were air-dropped over Germany by the Allies, and, over the subsequent decades, numerous schools, streets, and memorials — as well as SPUC’s annual fundraising appeal — have been named in honour of the Scholls and the resistance group they started. The White Rose are an inspiration to us in our resistance to abortion. Our Culture Club also takes place the evening before International Holocaust Memorial Day.
Her story of bravery has been depicted in several films, most notably the 2005 Oscar-nominated movie Sophie Scholl – The Final Days, which we’ll be focusing on in Culture Club.
If you’d like to join the discussion, you can watch the movie in advance of the session free on YouTube here.
We’ll be considering the ways the movie contributes to the pro-life message, as well as what can we learn from the movie about the art of writing a narrative, directing and film-making —especially, in this case, a story involving interrogation and court-room drama.
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