FRANZ JAGGERSTATER FULL
Radegund, as she and her sister take on the full burden of caring for the family farm.Īt Catholic News Agency, our team is committed to reporting the truth with courage, integrity, and fidelity to our faith. 9, 1943.Ī Hidden Life flashes between Franz in prison and his wife and family at home in St. He was tried on Jand condemned to death for sedition. However, his request was refused, and he was taken into custody in Linz for two months, then transferred to the Berlin-Tegel prison. He offered to carry out other, non-violent military service in place of fighting. The letters also play a major part throughout the film as they are heard through narrated voice-overs.įranz became convinced that it was wrong for him to fight and decided to refuse if he should be called up again, which happened in February 1943. And you feel their love, their faith, their day-to-day life," she said. Pachner said reading those letters was the most important thing she did to prepare for the role. These and other letters between the husband and wife were published in English in 2009. The mayor helped him to return home shortly after, but he was again called up for active service from October 1940 until April 1941, when the mayor was again able to intervene for his return home.ĭuring the time he was away, Franz and Franziska exchanged letters. In 1940, he was called up for military service. Pilgrims to walk 59 miles to England’s Our Lady of Walsingham shrine this summer Read article And it really gave me a lot of strength." "I just felt it's amazing what human beings are capable of and I found it very wonderful, this approach that they had to that decision. And trying to get close to that through portraying that character really gave me a certain sense of strength and empowerment," she said. "That was definitely something that impressed me a lot. It was inspiring for her, she explained, "to witness two people who know so well what is right in their hearts and follow that" even though it means putting their own needs and survival last. And that was in a way both wonderful and beautiful but also very challenging," she said. "I identified so strongly with the character. Valerie Pachner, the Austrian actress who plays Franziska in A Hidden Life, told CNA she enjoyed portraying a real person because of the depth it lends the role and because of the responsibility she felt toward the real-life Franziska. The strong love between the husband and wife, and in the family, are also closely shown, as they become criticized and ostracized by their neighbors for what is seen as a selfish choice to conscientiously object to fighting in Hitler's war.
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