Berkocinegoers at The Rex: From Hilde with Love

Tickets are only bought once payments have been made. Once you have RSVPed, please pay £12 immediately by bank transfer using these details:
Martin Jones
KROO BANK
04-07-09
#00779315

Rex Review:
Run time: 125 mins
(Subtitled)
Rotten Tomatoes 76%
Director Andreas Dresen creates a human-sized story rather than a heroic one with his portrayal of anti-Nazi dissents, set during Hilde Coppi’s trial for treason in wartime Berlin.
Lisa Fries (a star on her home turf) gives an outstanding performance in this heartwrenchingly powerful true story from the German home front in the second world war. Fries plays anti-Nazi resistance activist Hilde Coppi, a dental assistant in Berlin who falls in love with Hans Coppi, a communist who is hiding a Soviet parachutist. It’s also her determination that turns Hans’s illicit Radio Moscow listening into secret letters, via morse-code, to comfort the families of Russian-held POWs. She is finally arrested while pregnant, has to give birth in the prison hospital and then has to surrender the baby, Hans Jr, before she is led away to execution.
This is a character study bursting with passion and drama; much more concerned with feelings than feats of derring-do, the film avoids the traditional swastika-draped, sepia-toned wartime movie aesthetic (and refuses to reduce Nazis to comical villains), instead invoking a thoughtful realism, which gives it an unusual relatability. Don’t miss.

Trailer:
Hilde

Parking in Berkhamsted is very difficult but there is road parking along Three Close Lane. Please allow time to find somewhere to park. We meet between (or near to) the two doors in the bar.