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A Hidden Life (2019)

★ 7.2 · 780 ratings on TMDB

Better to suffer injustice than to commit it.

A Hidden Life poster★ 7.2

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

DirectorTerrence Malick
CastAugust Diehl, Franz Rogowski, Karin Neuhäuser, Karl Markovics, Maria Simon, Matthias Schoenaerts
GenresDrama, History, War
The emergence reading

A Hidden Life keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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