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Ida
Why this pick
This spare, luminous black-and-white journey shares A Hidden Life’s devotion to silence, faith, and the moral wounds left by war, finding profound feeling in restraint rather than melodrama.
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MOVIE2019 2h 53m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
When Austrian peasant farmer Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector to the fighting in WWII, is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his family that keeps his spirit alive.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
August Diehl
Franz Jägerstätter
Valerie Pachner
Franziska Jägerstätter
Bruno Ganz
Judge Lueben
Matthias Schoenaerts
Captain Herder
Michael Nyqvist
Bishop Joseph Fliessen
Maria Simon
Resie Schwaninger
Tobias Moretti
Vicar Ferdinand Fürthauer
Ulrich Matthes
Lorenz Schwaninger