ONLINE: MONOPOL INTERVIEW WITH AUGUST DIEHL.”MAYBE YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD BY SAYING NO”

Schauspieler August Diehl

In “A Hidden Life” August Diehl plays the Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter, who refused the oath to Hitler and was executed for it. For Monopol Magazine, Frauke Schlieckau talked to him about resistance and the directing phenomenon Terrence Malick. In the conversation, Diehl describes the collaboration with the publicity-shy Terrence Malick and the power of a simple “No”. The whole interview can now be read online on Monopol.

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ON AIR: AUGUST DIEHL AND VALERIE PACHNER ABOUT TERRENCE MALICK AND HIS NEW FILM “A HIDDEN LIFE” – FOR ARTE METROPOLIS, SUNDAY,  19.01.,  16.45 

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In 1997 the farmer Franz Jägerstätter was beatified. The pious Catholic had refused military service and the oath to Hitler for reasons of conscience in the Third Reich, but he was sentenced to death and executed. Director Terrence Malick now sets a monument to this martyr. A conversation with August Diehl and Valerie Pachner about an unusual history of resistance and the work with the poet among the directors.

Picture: Tobias Winkel

Schauspieler August Diehl

IN PRODUCTION: AUGUST DIEHL AND VALERIE PACHNER ABOUT TERRENCE MALICK AND HIS NEW FILM “A HIDDEN LIFE” – FOR ARTE METROPOLIS 

In 1997 the farmer Franz Jägerstätter was beatified. The pious Catholic had refused military service and the oath to Hitler for reasons of conscience in the Third Reich, but he was sentenced to death and executed. Director Terrence Malick now sets a monument to this martyr. A conversation with August Diehl and Valerie Pachner about an unusual history of resistance and the work with the poet among the directors. (via Kobalt Productions)