A Hidden Life poster

A Hidden Life

Better to suffer injustice than to commit it.

7.2(816)20192h 53m10

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

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Status
Released
Budget
$9M
Box office
$4.6M
Language
English
  • husband wife relationship
  • nazi
  • world war ii
  • austria
  • biography
  • based on true story
  • conscientious objector
  • free will
  • catholic
  • saint
  • farmer
  • strong man

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Behind the camera

Produced in

Germany, United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG-1313 Dec 2019
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereLondon Film Festival12 Oct 2019
    • Theatrical12A17 Jan 2020
  • AustraliaAU

    • TheatricalPG30 Jan 2020
  • CanadaCA

    • PremiereToronto International Film Festival9 Sept 2019
    • TheatricalPG20 Dec 2019
  • AustriaAT

    • Digital / OTT1225 Oct 2019
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical1513 Feb 2020
  • EstoniaEE

    • PremiereTallinn Black Nights Film Festival16 Nov 2019
  • FinlandFI

    • TheatricalK-167 Feb 2020
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereCannes Film Festival19 May 2019
    • TheatricalU11 Dec 2019
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1230 Jan 2020
  • GreeceGR

    • TheatricalΚ-1213 Feb 2020
    • PhysicalDVD27 Aug 2020
  • IrelandIE

    • Theatrical12A17 Jan 2020

Frequently asked questions

A Hidden Life was released on 27 August 2019.

Audience reviews

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    Luis_989

    1/18/2020

    8/10

    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 …

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    SWITCH.

    1/26/2020

    9/10

    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

    1/27/2020

    7/10

    “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 fri…

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    Stephen Campbell

    1/30/2020

    9/10

    **_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 the…

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    Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots

    3/27/2020

    9/10

    Terrence Malick lovers are going to mesmerized by “A Hidden Life,” his latest, and perhaps even greatest, work in years. As a huge fan of the director’s films, this three hour ethereal work of art plays like an extended dream and is textbook Malick perfection. But for those who find his films trying rather than celebrating his cinematic genius, this will likely prove to be yet another bore. Based on real events, t…

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