"A Hidden Life" movie

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The main character, an Austrian farmer would not fight for the Nazis and was eventually executed. I believe he is Catholic as well.





Limited release movie with a lot of praise. We do happen to have a theater showing it. 3 hours long.

There may have been an article months ago, I posted on this movie in the making as well.
 
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Yesterday, New Years Day, we drove about 90 minutes to the closest theater that was showing the movie. I found it strong, sad in ways, and at times hard to watch ( both the message and people’s actions toward other people). I would view it again in a heartbeat.

Yes, it’s three hours, but didn’t seem like it when you are drawn in.
 
Yeah, he was Catholic. He’s been beatified as a martyr and is Blessed Franz Jagerstatter. I remember his story cropping up every now and then in the Vietnam and post-Vietnam era as an example of heroic conscientious objection.

Re the movie, I tend to think 3 hours is overkill for the vast majority of movies, and the “Inspired by Real Events” makes me immediately wonder what liberties they took with the man’s actual story.
 
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I saw the movie last weekend. I liked it. Some might find it too slow. The
cinematography was beautiful. I am not sure where it was filmed.
He was given another opportunity of working in a hospital instead of fighting, but he still refused to declare loyalty to Hitler. He had a beautiful farm and a
wife and 3 daughters. Yes, he was Catholic.

I thought I had made a thread on this movie. I guess not.
 
I didn’t realize this was a Terrence Malick film.

@7_Sorrows it was filmed in the South Tyrol, Germany and in the Italian Alps.
 
Have you seen Malick’s ‘The New World’ about John Smith and Pocahontas? That had the same cinematographer and the cinematography of pre-settlement tidewater Virginia is also very lush and captivating. That was a movie that I wish had gotten more exposure than it did.
 
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I just saw this movie. It is beautifully photographed, but maybe a bit too long. The movie really does follow his life pretty accurately.
 
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Have you seen Malick’s ‘The New World’ about John Smith and Pocahontas? That had the same cinematographer and the cinematography of pre-settlement tidewater Virginia is also very lush and captivating. That was a movie that I wish had gotten more exposure than it did
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No, was it made a long time ago? I thought I read in one review that they said it had been decades since his last film.
 
‘The New World’ came out in 2005; then ‘The Tree of Life’ (with Brad Pitt) in 2011; now ‘A Hidden Life’. It’s not unusual for long periods (say ten years) to pass between the release of his movies, whether because he likes to take time off in between projects or is a slow and methodical worker, I don’t know, but it’s something of a trademark.
 
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tomarin said:
Have you seen Malick’s ‘The New World’ about John Smith and Pocahontas? That had the same cinematographer and the cinematography of pre-settlement tidewater Virginia is also very lush and captivating. That was a movie that I wish had gotten more exposure than it did.
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I think I saw The New World many years ago.
 
Yes, it is long. It shows the long hours and hard work to run a farm and what village life was like. He and his family were shunned more or less because of his views.

Thankfully, it did not seem like the war came directly to their village as far as fighting goes.
 
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‘The New World’ came out in 2005; then ‘The Tree of Life’ (with Brad Pitt) in 2011; now ‘A Hidden Life’. It’s not unusual for long periods (say ten years) to pass between the release of his movies, whether because he likes to take time off in between projects or is a slow and methodical worker, I don’t know, but it’s something of a trademark.
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I have not heard of The Tree of Life.
 
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‘The New World’ came out in 2005; then ‘The Tree of Life’ (with Brad Pitt) in 2011; now ‘A Hidden Life’.
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He’s been more prolific recently, there are 4 movies in between Tree of Life and the new one.
 
But are they feature-length movies? It wasn’t clear to me from IMDb.
 
Three of them definitely are. Voyage of Time is a documentary and has a feature version and a short veesion.
 
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