This film is like a monument to a largely unknown, silent hero: In breathtaking long shots and the most intimate moments of inner contemplation, veteran director Terrence Malick tells the real-life story of Upper Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl). After the occupation of Austria by Adolf Hitler's troops, the loving husband and father of three daughters steadfastly refuses to take the obligatory oath to the Wehrmacht and fight in it. When Jägerstätter is called up for military service in 1940, he is initially able to return to his wife (Valerie Pachner) on the farm after a few days due to officially documented indispensability. When another call-up follows, the convinced pacifist refuses and in 1943 declares his refusal to do military service with a weapon due to his religious beliefs. It was not only the nationalist villagers, Jägerstätter's lifelong companions and friends, who met his resistance with contempt and exclusion - the staunch Christian was also threatened with imprisonment, trial and a death sentence by the authorities. His sacrifice would benefit no one. Jägerstätter hears this early on... Malick spent three years working on his deeply poetic plea not to allow evil to take over one's belief in what one considers to be good and right. Cinematographer Jörg Widmer (“The Invisibles”) has clothed this allegory of Jesus in beguilingly beautiful images that are simply stunning and lend this drama of resistance a universal truthfulness. This ravishingly beautiful and at the same time deeply moving portrait of an unknown hero was not only invited to the Cannes competition, but also garnered rave reviews worldwide. In addition to August Diehl and Bruno Ganz (in his last role), this late work about followership, nationalism and the courage to stand up to injustice is also starring well-known actors from Germany and Austria: Tobias Moretti, Alexander Fehling, Valerie Pachner, Ulrich Matthes, Sophie Rois, Jürgen Prochnow, Ulrich Matthes, Franz Rogowski, Mark Waschke, Karl Marovics and many more. They all help to bring this “hidden life” into the bright light of the screen and thus into the public eye.