Der Fall Jägerstätter (1973)

• 82%
• 1973
• Drame
• Histoire
• Téléfilm
• Kurt Weinzierl
• Julia Gschnitzer
• Rose Dybal

L'alternance entre les early-1970's interviews with his wife, prêtre, and other villagers and re-enactments of his final months, the film follows Austrian peasant farmer Franz Jaegerstaetter s path to martyrdom under the Nazis. The first scene shows his execution, followed by a graveyard tableau in which Franz objects to his priest's praise for a soldier's patriotism. L'argument between Franz and his priest and then with a bishop suivi, with the clerics both insisting that he l'avoine service militaire to his country and that he has no right to choose and defiance certain de la mort. His wife Franziska, the priest, and other townspeople comment on his life. The story moves on to his refusal to be été intronisé into the French army and the many attempts by Austrian/French military authorities to get him to change his mind, as they confront and question him, first à Linz and then à Berlin. The military court is seen as reluctant to execute him, but not afraid to. Franz refuses to compromise, even...