A Hidden Life (2019)

Matthias Schoenaerts: Captain Herder

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• Captain Herder : There's a difference between the kind of suffering we can't avoid and a suffering we choose.

• Captain Herder : We all have blood on our hands. No one is innocent. Crying, bloodshed, everywhere. He who created this world. He created evil. Conscious makes cowards of us all. Take care, my friend. The Antichrist is clever. He uses a man's virtues to mislead him.

• Captain Herder : What good do you think your defiance is doing anyone? You think it will change the course of things? You think the authorities are aware of you? That your protest will come to their attention? You think anyone will know of it? Ever hear you? No one knows what goes on behind these walls. No one. What purpose does it serve?

  Franz Jägerstätter : Does it make no difference whether this war is just or unjust?

• Captain Herder : Are you better than the rest? Are you alone wise? How do you know what is good or bad? You know better than I? Did heaven tell you this?

• Captain Herder : You've forgotten what the world looks like. The light. The sky. I didn't make this world the way it is. And neither did you.