Author ORCID Identifier
0000-0002-8631-3838
Abstract
The new film approach to the figure of Franz Jägerstätter by Terrence Mallick in 2019 is an occasion to take a critical look at the first movie about the Catholic martyr that was made by the Austrian director Axel Corti in 1971. Although the movie turned out be to a huge success and until now is viewed as one of the turning points in coming to terms with the Nazi past in the Austrian film history, it idealizes, against the director’s intentions, the protagonist and preserves some of the characteristic elements of the history discourse of the times it was made.
Recommended Citation
Gortat, Jakub
(2019)
"Between Idealization of a Martyr and Critic of a Society: Analysis of Axel Corti’s "Der Fall Jägerstätter","
Journal of Religion & Film: Vol. 23:
Iss.
2, Article 3.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol23/iss2/3
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