However, the war escalates, and Franz reads reports about the evils that the Hitler’s National Socialist forces are committing in Europe, Russia and elsewhere. Everyone begins to think that peace will soon occur. His mother and sister-in-law have come to live with them, and for a while things seem to go on as normal. Eventually, when France surrenders, and it seems the war might end soon, the Nazis send Franz back home. He is away from his beloved wife and children for several months but doesn’t see any action. In 1940, Franz is called up to basic training, a requirement for all Austrian men. Their third daughter is a toddler who’s just beginning to walk. Scenes show the happily married couple using scythes to cut the wheat and lying down in the grass to enjoy one another’s company while their three young daughters play nearby. Radegund, which nests comfortable next to beautiful mountains in Northern Austria near the German border. The movie opens in 1939 with the farmer, Franz Jägerstätter, and his wife, Franziska, or Fani for short, tending to their cow and wheat fields in the quiet small farming village of St. Though it’s nearly three hours long and moves at an unhurried pace that avoids lots of dialogue, A HIDDEN LIFE is an impressionistic masterpiece honoring one Christian man and his loyal, loving wife.Ī HIDDEN LIFE is based on actual personal letters and other historical documents. Beautifully photographed, with extremely little objectionable content, A HIDDEN LIFE is a glorious, emotionally powerful tribute to steadfast Christian faith confronting great evil. A HIDDEN LIFE, directed by Terence Malick, follows the true story of an Austrian farmer and his family during World War II, whose lives are turned upside down when the farmer, a fervent Catholic, refuses to pledge loyalty to Adolf Hitler because of the farmer’s strong Christian beliefs.
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