Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life is a satisfyingly exhausting experience, an ode to Catholicism in which the viewer is asked to take a moral inventory throughout its three-hour runtime. August Diehl and Valerie Pachner play Franz and Fanny Jägerstätter, respectively, a husband and wife in the alps of Sankt Radegund who are forced by Hitler’s annexation of Austria—and their unwavering Christian conviction—to reject Nazism, and thus lose Franz to a ruthless military trial at the Reichskriegsgericht in Berlin-Charlottenburg on July 6, 1943. He was accused of undermining military morale and executed by guillotine on August 9th of that year. The family was hated in their time but have since become moral exemplars. Franz was even declared a martyr by Pope Benedict XVI and declared a saint.
“A Hidden Life is an invocation, the wrenching and unheeded plea of a man struggling to preserve his humanity intact as the...
“A Hidden Life is an invocation, the wrenching and unheeded plea of a man struggling to preserve his humanity intact as the...
- 12/11/2019
- by Joshua Encinias
- The Film Stage
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