From Hilde, With Love (Opening film) Excellent German Cinema
Tue, 09 July
|Caloundra
This very moving film depicts the remarkable true story of a young German woman drawn into the anti-Nazi resistance movement in Berlin and how she came to fall in love with Hans, also a resistance member who became the father of her child. "Top drawer, evocative and affecting.” Hollywood Reporter
Time & Location
09 July 2024, 7:00 pm – 9:10 pm
Caloundra, 2/11 Bulcock St, Caloundra QLD 4551, Australia
About the Event
From Hilde With Love Film Trailer HERE
MA15+ 124 Min,
Anchored by an incredible and captivating central performance from Liv Lisa Fries (Babylon Berlin), this affecting historical drama from multi award-winning director Andreas Dresen depicts the remarkable true story of a young German woman drawn into the anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II and the 'most beautiful summer of her life' when she feel in lave with Hans, that father of her child.
It's Berlin, 1942 when the shy, heavily pregnant Hilde Coppi (Fries) is suddenly detained by the Gestapo. She pleads ignorance to their accusations that she has aided her lover, Hans (Johannes Hegemann), in transcribing coded radio transmissions to and from Moscow.
However, it appears there is more evidence against Hilde than anticipated, given many of the other activists involved in their group – who will become known as Die Rote Kapelle (“The Red Orchestra”) – have…