![]() ![]() Court trial scene: Kammergericht building (Schöneberg, Berlin). Prison scenes: Zittau, Tegel (Berlin), Hoheneck (near Dresden). Radegund (Austria), Sappada (Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy), Brixen, Dietenheim (South Tyrol, Italy). ![]() Ferdinand Fürthauer), Bruno Ganz (Judge Werner Lueben), Matthias Schoenaerts (Captain Herder), Karin Neuhäuser (Rosalia Jägerstätter), Ulrich Matthes (Lorenz Schwaninger, Fani's father), Martin Wuttke (Major Kiel), Michael Nyqvist (Bishop Joseph Fliessen), Jürgen Prochnow (Major Schlegel). 2Ĭ: August Diehl (Franz Jägerstätter), Valerie Pachner (Franziska / Fani Jägerstätter), Maria Simon (Resie, Fani's sister), Tobias Moretti (Fr. – Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. – Antonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia in B Minor, RV 169 "Al santo sepolcro" – Henryk Górecki: Male requiem dla pwenej polki, Op. – Antonín Dvořák: Ceska suita in D Major, Op. ED: Rehman Nizar Ali, Joe Gleason, Sebastian Jones. Newsreel inserts in b&w and colour and in 1,33:1. DP: Jörg Widmer – colour – 2,35:1 – source format: 6K – 7K for winter scenes – master format: 4K – release format: D-Cinema. EX: Marcus Loges, Adam Morgan, Bill Pohlad, Yi Wei, Christoph Fisser, Henning Molfenter, Charlie Woebecken.ĭ+SC: Terrence Malick. P: Grant Hill, Dario Bergesio, Josh Jeter, Elisabeth Bentley. In Association with Aceway and Mister Smith. Valerie Pachner (Franziska Jägerstätter), August Diehl (Franz Jägerstätter).Īn Elizabeth Bay Productions Presentation. The film's gorgeous light is natural, but the viewpoint is pointedly contrived.A Hidden Life / Ein verborgenes Leben. The jagged effect echoes the upward-thrusting landscape, and also forces the viewer to be conscious of the very process of looking. Cinematographer Joerg Widmer shoots with anamorphic lenses that distort everything but the center of the image, which is seldom where the action is. The intentionally disjointed editing and reliance on voiceover aren't the only distancing devices. As usual, Malick's style of storytelling is roundabout and allusive, but this time it seldom stalls. The film moves woozily yet briskly, propelled by the filmmaker's most straightforward script since 1998's The Thin Red Line (another World War II parable). ![]() Unlike Malick's last several movies, though, his new one doesn't feel longer than it actually is. That's about all that happens in A Hidden Life, which spends much of its three hours musing, or simply being beautiful. But the conscientious objector feels he has no choice, even if his chosen path leads only to the guillotine. "How do you know what is good or bad?" asks a prison interrogator. Repeatedly, Franz is told that his defiance will mean nothing, change nothing, and ruin his beloved family. ![]() Movies John Powers: Reflections On Cannes 2011 The family will stand alone when Hitler's curse descends on the village. This time, the writer-director elects to present incidental conversation in unsubtitled German (and occasionally Italian), the better to distinguish everyday chatter from the words of the Jagerstatters. They work hard on their picturesque Austrian farm, yet are disconnected from the travails of lowlanders and - because this is a Malick movie - from much else as well.įani makes her comment in voiceover, which bobs and weaves with spoken dialogue as it always does in Malick-land. "We lived above the clouds," announces Fani Jagerstatter (Valerie Pachner) of the alpine idyll she shares with husband Franz (August Diehl) and their three young daughters, as well as Fani's sister and Franz's mother. Both filmmakers exalt their subjects, even if Malick's real-life hero gives his life in opposition to Riefenstahl's. Perhaps that's why Terrence Malick uses clips from Triumph of the Will to open his own mountain film, A Hidden Life. August Diehl stars in Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life.īefore she made the Hitler-worshipping Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl began her career as an actress in and director of mountain films, the German genre that equated physical heights with mystical ones. ![]()
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