From Hilde with Love
Monday 8 September 2025
- Duration: 125 mins (Little Shrew duration = 4 mins)
German with English subtitles
| Monday 8 September
8pm |
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Accessible / wheelchair seats must be booked through Box Office on 01 272 4030.
Director: Andreas Dresen
Starring : Liv Lisa Fries, Johannes Hegemann, Lisa Wagner.
Berlin, 1942. Hilde (Liv Lisa Fries) and Hans (Johannes Hegemann), both German resistance fighters with the Red Orchestra anti-fascist group, fall madly in love. They marry and Hilde becomes pregnant. But as the birth of her son approaches, they are arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo. Now in a desperate situation, Hilde develops a quiet inspirational strength. However, as she faces only having a few months with her newborn son, Hilde’s resilience is tested to its limits.
Based on the stirring true story of Hilde and Hans Coppi, both executed in Berlin-Plötzensee prison, Andreas Dresen's film is a polished biopic employing a non-linear narrative to craft a detailed and emotionally resonant film anchored by a powerhouse performance from Fries.
Festivals:
Dublin International Film Festival 2025
Glasgow Film Festival 2025
Talinn Black Night Film Festival 2025
Berlin International Film Festival 2024
‘Made with well-considered period detail and suffused by a dusty, slanted light thanks to DP Judith Kaufmann, this works as an evocative and affecting portrait of love in a time of genocide.’
Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter
‘The story of the German resistance to the Nazi regime has been told before in books, documentaries and fictional features, but rarely so freshly and movingly as in this account.’
Lee Marshall, Screen International
‘It’s a handsomely assembled picture, with Judith Kaufmann’s cinematography leaning into the sylvan charms of the Red Orchestra’s hangout, underscoring the brutality of the prison environment to which the film constantly returns.’
Catherine Bray, Variety
Little Shrew
Duration: 4 mins
From Hilde With Love will be accompanied by the beautiful short film Little Shrew directed by Kate Bush. This acclaimed film focuses on a little shrew who searches for Hope as she makes her way across a bombed-out city. Blissfully unaware of the dangers surrounding her, she journeys through a war-torn Land of the Giants. Stunned and caught up in an explosion as the city is being bombed during a drone attack, she recovers and manages to continue her search for Hope...
