Based on real events, A HIDDEN LIFE is the story of an unsung hero, Bl. “A Hidden Life” dramatizes the tale of an Austrian conscientious objector in World War II.

George Eliot (1873). “The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” – George Eliot, Middlemarch. Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. “A Hidden Life” (2019), director Terrence Malick’s latest foray into questions of the human spirit and conscience, ends with a quote on a black screen, written by the pseudonymous English writer George Eliot: “…for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully … “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.196 A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for …