From Hilde, with Love

2024 2h 4m DE

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★7.0TMDB · 53

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Synopsis

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In Berlin 1942, Hilde is a member of an anti-Nazi group. She falls in love with another member, Hans. The two spend a summer together until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde is imprisoned, eight months pregnant.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Liv Lisa Fries
Hilde Coppi
Johannes Hegemann
Hans Coppi
Sina Martens
Libertas "Libs" Schulze-Boysen
Lisa Wagner
Anneliese Kühn
Alexander Scheer
Pfarrer Harald Poelchau
Emma Bading
Ina Ender-Lautenschläger
Lisa Hrdina
Grete Jäger
Lena Urzendowsky
Liane Berkowitz

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Andreas Dresen
Writers: Laila Stieler
Languages: German
Countries: Germany

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ERA

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Released 2 years ago.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Andreas Dresen, shot by Judith Kaufmann. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Jörg Hauschild shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Liv Lisa Fries and Johannes Hegemann and Sina Martens carry the top of the cast.

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt20420646 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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WILD

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Only 53 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Andreas Dresen directs. Judith Kaufmann behind the camera. Jörg Hauschild cuts. Produced in Germany. Dialogue in German.

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1Released 2 years ago.
2Directed by Andreas Dresen, shot by Judith Kaufmann. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Editor Jörg Hauschild shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
4Liv Lisa Fries and Johannes Hegemann and Sina Martens carry the top of the cast.
5IMDB entry: tt20420646 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
6Only 53 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Judith Kaufmann
Editing: Jörg Hauschild
Production design: Susanne Hopf
Costume design: Birgitt Kilian
Makeup / hair: Uta Spikermann
Stunt coordinator: Wolfgang Lindner
Runtime: 124 min · 2h 4m
Status: Released
Original language: DE
Certification (US): MA 15+
IMDB: From Hilde, with Love (2024)

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CinemaSerf2026-01-16
★ 6/10
This story of real characters is told via two timelines. The more menacing tells us that Hilde (Liv Lisa Fries) has been apprehended by the Nazis and imprisoned for assisting her husband Hans (Johannes Hegemann) as he worked for a free Germany in wartime Berlin. The second thread shows us their summer of love. We meet them, and their friends, and follow their love affair through to their wedding and their conceiving the child that she is now doomed to bear in custody. Luckily, despite a fairly terrifying start to her incarceration and the process of her childbirth, Hilde - hitherto a dental nurse - manages to get along with her warder Miss Kühn (Lisa Wagner) and gradually befriend her and ensure that she is permitted to nurture her new born boy. With these two storylines gradually intertwining, we learn that the brutality of their government was not reserved for their foreign enemies, and that any rebellious instincts from their own citizens were robustly dealt with. Fries delivers really quite strongly here, but perhaps because of the way the story unfolds there is really a distinct lack of threat throughout, and I missed that. Indeed, the whole film has a bit of the television drama look to it that I felt fell a bit flat as it progressed. Perhaps it is just assuming that those watching already know how ghastly and toxic the regime was, but the film rather undercooks that element and as such this does struggle to sustain the sense of peril that she must have faced. It’s naturally photographed with their bucolic existence powerfully contrasted with their imprisonment and the narration, sourced from letters, does provide an authenticity to their struggle. This is a good looking piece of cinema, but dramatically it does come up a bit short.

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