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A Hidden Life

  • 7.4 /10

  • 667

  • 82%

Plot

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

Cast

August Diehl as Franz Jägerstätter
August Diehl

as Franz Jägerstätter

Valerie Pachner as Fani Jägerstätter
Valerie Pachner

as Fani Jägerstätter

Maria Simon as Resie
Maria Simon

as Resie

Karin Neuhäuser as Rosalia Jägerstätter
Karin Neuhäuser

as Rosalia Jägerstätter

Tobias Moretti as Fr Ferdinand Fürthauer
Tobias Moretti

as Fr Ferdinand Fürthauer

Ulrich Matthes as Lorenz Schwaninger
Ulrich Matthes

as Lorenz Schwaninger

Matthias Schoenaerts as Captain Herder
Matthias Schoenaerts

as Captain Herder

Michael Nyqvist as Bishop Joseph Fliessen
Michael Nyqvist

as Bishop Joseph Fliessen

Franz Rogowski as Waldland
Franz Rogowski

as Waldland

Karl Markovics as Mayor of St. Radegund
Karl Markovics

as Mayor of St. Radegund

Movie Facts

Rated

  • PG-13

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • August 27, 2019

Production Companies

  • Studio Babelsberg

  • Elizabeth Bay Productions

  • Aceway

  • Mister Smith Entertainment

  • Orange Studio

  • Alto Adige Productions

Production Countries

  • Germany

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • English

  • Deutsch

Budget

  • $9,000,000.00

Revenue

  • $4,645,140.00

Runtime

  • 2.88 hrs

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Reviews

An audiovisual beauty like all Malick's films although this is definitely the first one that has a more interesting story to tell since Tree of Life but unfortunately in my opinion its own ambition and pretense of doing something more epic plays against it because A Hidden Life it's a film that greatly extends its stay. Although Malick doesn't change the formula he has been using both narrativ…

Terrence Malick is a filmmaker whose primary concern is the sanctity of the human soul, and in this instance, he has chosen a time and a place where that sanctity was under tremendous threat, and a story of two people sacrificing themselves to protect it. 'A Hidden Life' is a remarkable and uncompromising film, a work of hope and sorrow and belief in the human spirit. Even with the foundation of …

“If God gives us free will, we are responsible for what we do or what we fail to do.” Ambitious, but strangely simple. A true and powerful story told in a very Malick way. Based on letters written in Austria during Hitler’s early reigns; ‘A Hidden Life’ follows a husband and wife objecting the Nazi party - which unfortunately leads to the husbands imprisonment and his wife being persecuted …