A Hidden Life

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

Cast

August Diehl

August Diehl

as Franz Jägerstätter

Valerie Pachner

Valerie Pachner

as Fani Jägerstätter

Maria Simon

Maria Simon

as Resie

Karin Neuhäuser

Karin Neuhäuser

as Rosalia Jägerstätter

Tobias Moretti

Tobias Moretti

as Fr Ferdinand Fürthauer

Ulrich Matthes

Ulrich Matthes

as Lorenz Schwaninger

Matthias Schoenaerts

Matthias Schoenaerts

as Captain Herder

Michael Nyqvist

Michael Nyqvist

as Bishop Joseph Fliessen

Franz Rogowski

Franz Rogowski

as Waldland

Karl Markovics

Karl Markovics

as Mayor of St. Radegund

Reviews

Luis_989

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 grea...

SWITCH.

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 uncompro...

Matthew Brady

“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...

Stephen Campbell

**_A meditation on morality and faith; a film of unparalleled sublimity; an experience beyond the sensory_** >_Death be not proud, though some have called thee_ >_Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,_ >_For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,_ >_Die not, poore death,...

Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots

Terrence Malick lovers are going to mesmerized by “A Hidden Life,” his latest, and perhaps even greatest, work in years. As a huge fan of the director’s films, this three hour ethereal work of art plays like an extended dream and is textbook Malick perfection. But for those who find his films trying...

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