Hidden Life, A

Breathtaking cinematography and scenery dominate Terrence Malick's poignant, factually based, well-acted, dark, gut-wrenching, overly long, star-dotted (Bruno Ganz, Jürgen Prochnow, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Michael Nyqvist), 3-hour film in which Austrian, devout Catholic farmer Bl. Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl), who lives with his wife (Valerie Pachner), three young daughters, mother-in-law, and sister-in-law (Maria Simon) in the Alps, is steadfast in his conviction and conscience about not swearing allegiance to German Führer Adolf Hitler in 1943 and would not fight for the Nazis during WWII with the high risk of the Third Reich charging him with treason.
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