Published 2025-02-01
“…The film offers a nuanced and poetic depiction of Austrian peasant Franz Jägerstätter (1907–1943), who refused to give an oath of loyalty to Hitler (Führereid), and was subsequently imprisoned and executed under the Nazi laws criminalizing conscientious objection as an “offence of
sedition.” We argue that Malick complicates the question of what it means to rise in defiance against power by locating Jägerstätter’s refusal not in religious dogma or a position of righteousness, but depicting it as a lived experience infused with affect, hesitation and doubt. …”
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