Der Fall Jägerstätter (1971)

Drama TV Movie

Alternating between early-1970's interviews with his wife, priest, 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 fallen soldier's patriotism. Arguments between Franz and his priest and then with a bishop follow, with the clerics both insisting that he owes military service to his country and that he has no right to choose defiance and certain death. His wife Franziska, the priest, and other townspeople comment on his life.....

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Runtime: 110 mins Rating: 7.0

Cast

Julia Gschnitzer

Franziska Jägerstätter

Kurt Weinzierl

Franz Jägerstätter

Wolfgang Kieling

Unteroffizier

Bruno Dallansky

Feldwebel

Gerhard Geisler

Arzt

Walter Jokisch

Rechtsanwalt Feldmann

Fritz Schmiedel

Bischof

Ernst Auer

Bauer

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Crew

Axel Corti

Director

Walter Kindler

Teleplay

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Der Fall Jägerstätter (1971)

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