Julia Jentsch
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Filmography
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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
(2005)The true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in this Academy Award Nominated Best Foreign Language Film. Armed with long-buried historical records of her incarceration, director Marc Rothemund expertly re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl's life: a heart-stopping journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence.

The Edukators
(2004)A drama about friends who are united by passion to change the world. They become The Edukators, mysterious perpetrators who non-violently warn the rich their "days of plenty are numbered."

I Served the King of England
(2007)A busboy with an inferiority complex and a driving ambition to become a millionaire quickly rises to become a head waiter, but the respect he craves continues to allude him. When he marries a Nazi gym teacher, the Czechs despise him even more, while the Germans barely tolerate him. Rare stamps taken from wealthy Jews make his dream come true after the war, but his first-class hotel is soon nationalized by the Communists and he ends his life in poverty and isolation.

Hannah Arendt
(2012)During the year 1961, the influential German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt reported for the New Yorker magazine on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann. Her articles introducing her now-famous concept of the "Banality of Evil" triggered off an unprecedented controversy. Using footage from the actual Eichmann trial and weaving a narrative that spans three countries, Margarethe von Trotta turns the often invisible passion for thought into immersive dramatic cinema.