![]() It was announced that August Diehl was set to play Jägerstätter and Valerie Pachner to play his wife, Franziska Jägerstätter. On June 23, 2016, reports emerged that the film, then titled Radegund, would depict the life of Austria’s Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector during World War II who was put to death at age 36 for undermining military actions, and was later declared a martyr and beatified by the Catholic Church. Tobias Moretti as Priest Ferdinand Fürthauer.Michael Nyqvist as Bishop Joseph Fliesser.Valerie Pachner as Franziska Jägerstätter.Despite many opportunities to sign the oath of allegiance, and the promise of non-combatant work, he continues to refuse and is executed by the Third Reich on August 9, 1943, while his wife and daughters survive. He is found guilty and sentenced to death. Fani is eventually able to visit her husband in Berlin.Īfter months of brutal incarceration, Jägerstätter's case goes to trial. Fani and their daughters are victims of growing hostility in the village over her husband's decision not to fight. During his time in prison, he and Fani write letters to each other and give each other strength. He is taken to prison, first in Enns, then in Berlin and waits months for his trial. Wrestling with the knowledge that his decision will mean arrest and even death, he finds strength in his faith in God, his prayers, and Fani's love and support. Despite pressure from the mayor and his neighbors, who increasingly ostracize him and his family, and from the Bishop of Linz, Jägerstätter refuses. ![]() Their first requirement is to swear an oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. As the war goes on, Jägerstätter and the other able-bodied men in the village are called up to fight. With his mother and sister-in-law Resie, he and his wife farm the land and raise their children amid the mountains and valleys of upper Austria, cutting hay and gathering. Eventually, when France surrenders and it seems the war might end soon, he is sent back from training. Franz is called up for basic training in the German army and is away from his beloved wife and children for months. They live a simple life with the passing years marked by the arrival of the couple's three girls. Married to Franziska, colloquially Fani, the couple are important members of the tight-knit rural community. Radegund, is working his land when war breaks out. ![]() It received critical acclaim upon release and was the final feature film to be released under the Fox Searchlight Pictures name before Walt Disney Studios changed the company's name to Searchlight Pictures on January 17, 2020.Īustrian peasant farmer Franz Jägerstätter, born and brought up in the small village of St. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019 and was theatrically released in the United States on December 13, 2019. for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.Įliot in turn derived it from a phrase in the New Testament, the Epistle to the Colossians 3:3: "For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God." The title is taken from George Eliot's Middlemarch: The film depicts the life of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer and devout Catholic who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. It stars August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, and Matthias Schoenaerts with Michael Nyqvist in his final performance. A Hidden Life is a 2019 epic historical drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick.
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