Based on the true story of Hilde Coppi, a Communist and resistance fighter who defied the Nazi regime by broadcasting programmes from Radio Moscow, this film explores her resistance, arrest and the imprisonment she endured for her beliefs. This film achieves a compounding sense of bleakness, one that makes it hard to feel much emotion beyond gnawing despair. The story of resistance in Nazi Germany is of obvious significance, but it is not enough to keep the film’s narrative afloat. Characters reference events and encounters as having already happened when we’re introduced to them, events we don’t sometimes see until forty minutes later. From Hilde is a very earnest and respectful film that tries to tell the story of an ordinary person making the ultimate sacrifice in war.