‘Hidden Life’ Stars On Working on Terrence Malick’s Film

Working with Terrence Malick on “A Hidden Life” was in contrast to something actors Valerie Pachner and August Diehl have carried out earlier than, particularly as a result of there have been no breaks throughout manufacturing of the historic movie.

“There are no breaks for light changes or counter shots, you are always on the whole time — that makes you after a few weeks just living it,” Diehl informed TheWrap’s Steve Pond on the Toronto International Film Festival. “You reside the entire thing, you’re respiratory it, you aren’t considering abut explicit scenes — you consider the life. You take into consideration the hay that must be modified or engaged on a farm.

“I bear in mind at some point, I used to be laying on a meadow sleeping as a result of I used to be so exhausted and the digital camera was right here,” he mentioned, pointing to his face, “and they are filming everything they can have.”

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“I think what he likes most is if life is happening in front of his camera,” Pachner added.

Malick wrote and directed the historic drama about Franz Jäggerstätter, an Austrian farmer who refused to struggle for the Nazis in World War II. It first debuted on the Cannes Film Festival in May to rave critiques, a second Diehl will at all times bear in mind.

“It was the most emotional professional career moment in my whole entire life,” he mentioned, including that he was virtually moved to tears when he noticed the viewers’s response to the movie at Cannes.

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The movie has since performed at Telluride Film Festival and Toronto, and can hit a bunch of different festivals earlier than will probably be theatrically launched within the United States on December 13.

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