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Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin
2024 · History · Drama
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Better to suffer injustice than to commit it.
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
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Luis_989
January 18, 2020
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 greatly extends its stay. Although Malick doesn't change the formula he has been using both narrative and visually, this sto…
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SWITCH.
January 26, 2020
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 uncompromising film, a work of hope and sorrow and belief in the human spirit. Even with the foundation of a true story, Malick…
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Matthew Brady
January 27, 2020
“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 Nazi party - which unfortunately leads to the husbands imprisonment and his wife being persecuted by villagers, all friends a…
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Stephen Campbell
January 30, 2020
**_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, nor yet canst thou kill mee._ >_From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,_ >_Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must…
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