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7:00 PM
NEW DATE Film Screening: From Hilde, With Love by Andreas Dresen
Film Screening | Goethe-Kino (Cinema Screening)
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Goethe-Institut London, London
- Price £6, £3 Concessions and for Goethe-Institut language students & library members.
- Part of series: Goethe-Kino 2025
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SCREENING HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO THE 2ND OF JULY. TICKETS PURCHASED PREVIOUSLY ARE STILL VALID.
We are pleased to present a film screening of Andreas Dresen’s vivid and moving fictionalised portrait of anti-Nazi resistance activist Hilde Coppi and her circle.
Berlin, summer 1942. Hilde has joined an anti-Nazi resistance group and is learning to write morse code, is exchanging radio messages with the Russians. She writes letters, pastes slogans on walls, distributes flyers. She falls in love with Hans Coppi, a member of the group, and amidst their quiet acts of defiance they are enjoying a carefree summer and moments of happiness. But by late autumn, both have been arrested by the Gestapo and are in prison. Hilde is pregnant and must find the strength to be their for her child, at least as long she is allowed to live.
The resistance group Hilde and Hans Coppi belonged to was part of a broader network later labeled the “Red Orchestra” (Rote Kapelle)—a derogatory term coined by the Gestapo. Less well known, at least in the West, than the White Rose group around the Scholl siblings in Munich, the Eastern resistance circles formed a wide-reaching network of individuals from diverse social backgrounds. Over 50 of its members were murdered by the Nazis.
In the GDR, where director Andreas Dresen grew up, these resistance fighters were, as he puts it, glorified as “God-like shining lights.” To counter this idealisation, Dresen and screenwriter Laila Stieler chose to portray Hilde and her friends not as distant heroes, but as a group of young people who enjoy each other’s company, have sex, enjoy nature and engage in political conversations. Hilde is depicted as someone who acts more from an intuitive sense of what is right and love than from a clearly articulated political ideology.
Avoiding the usual tropes of films set during the Nazi era, the film deliberately minimizes historical distance. It brings its protagonists and their acts of resistance closer to the present, making them more relatable. This effect is enhanced by Judith Kaufmann’s cinematography, with its pared-down, slightly washed-out aesthetic, and the restrained use of music. As Dresen explains in an interview: “The music here is people breathing, the sounds of the landscape, the water. It’s a very intense and, for me, soothing ambient backdrop. In quiet films, there’s more to hear.”
Please note that we do not show any advertising and that the programme starts on time.
Germany 2024, colour 125 mins. With English subtitles.
Directed by Andreas Dresen. With Liv Lisa Fries, Johannes Hegemann, Lisa Wagner, Alexander Scheer, Emma Bading, Sina Martens, Lisa Hrdina, Lena Urzendowsky, Hans-Christian Hegewald, Nico Ehrenteit, Jacob Keller.
In UK Cinemas from 27 June. With special thanks to Picturehouse Entertainment.
We are pleased to present a film screening of Andreas Dresen’s vivid and moving fictionalised portrait of anti-Nazi resistance activist Hilde Coppi and her circle.
Berlin, summer 1942. Hilde has joined an anti-Nazi resistance group and is learning to write morse code, is exchanging radio messages with the Russians. She writes letters, pastes slogans on walls, distributes flyers. She falls in love with Hans Coppi, a member of the group, and amidst their quiet acts of defiance they are enjoying a carefree summer and moments of happiness. But by late autumn, both have been arrested by the Gestapo and are in prison. Hilde is pregnant and must find the strength to be their for her child, at least as long she is allowed to live.
The resistance group Hilde and Hans Coppi belonged to was part of a broader network later labeled the “Red Orchestra” (Rote Kapelle)—a derogatory term coined by the Gestapo. Less well known, at least in the West, than the White Rose group around the Scholl siblings in Munich, the Eastern resistance circles formed a wide-reaching network of individuals from diverse social backgrounds. Over 50 of its members were murdered by the Nazis.
In the GDR, where director Andreas Dresen grew up, these resistance fighters were, as he puts it, glorified as “God-like shining lights.” To counter this idealisation, Dresen and screenwriter Laila Stieler chose to portray Hilde and her friends not as distant heroes, but as a group of young people who enjoy each other’s company, have sex, enjoy nature and engage in political conversations. Hilde is depicted as someone who acts more from an intuitive sense of what is right and love than from a clearly articulated political ideology.
Avoiding the usual tropes of films set during the Nazi era, the film deliberately minimizes historical distance. It brings its protagonists and their acts of resistance closer to the present, making them more relatable. This effect is enhanced by Judith Kaufmann’s cinematography, with its pared-down, slightly washed-out aesthetic, and the restrained use of music. As Dresen explains in an interview: “The music here is people breathing, the sounds of the landscape, the water. It’s a very intense and, for me, soothing ambient backdrop. In quiet films, there’s more to hear.”
Please note that we do not show any advertising and that the programme starts on time.
Germany 2024, colour 125 mins. With English subtitles.
Directed by Andreas Dresen. With Liv Lisa Fries, Johannes Hegemann, Lisa Wagner, Alexander Scheer, Emma Bading, Sina Martens, Lisa Hrdina, Lena Urzendowsky, Hans-Christian Hegewald, Nico Ehrenteit, Jacob Keller.
In UK Cinemas from 27 June. With special thanks to Picturehouse Entertainment.
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Goethe-Institut London
50 Princes Gate
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2PH
United Kingdom
50 Princes Gate
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2PH
United Kingdom