From Hilde, With Love

Andreas Dresen's From Hilde, With Love (In Liebe, eure Hilde) opened in 2025 and won the Lola Award for Best Actress (Liv Lisa Fries) and Best Film (Bronze) at the German Film Awards. The film consolidated Dresen, after his earlier Stopped on Track and Gundermann, as one of the most internationally significant German directors of his generation. Adapted from a 2009 biographical account by Stefan Roloff with screenplay by Laila Stieler, the film draws on the actual letters Hilde Coppi wrote during her imprisonment.

The film follows Hilde Coppi (Liv Lisa Fries, of Babylon Berlin), a young Berlin nurse and member of the Red Orchestra resistance network in Berlin in the early 1940s. The film moves between Hilde's relationship with her husband Hans (Johannes Hegemann), her work, and her arrest in 1942 along with most of the Red Orchestra cell. Alexander Scheer plays Wilhelm Schulze, a Nazi prison official.

Dresen's commitment to a register of unsentimental intimacy (long quiet domestic sequences, restrained period reconstruction of Berlin in the early war, no manipulative scoring) produced one of the most carefully calibrated German historical-drama features of recent years. The film operates simultaneously as biographical record, love story, and meditation on what young people in resistance movements actually experienced day by day. Fries's central performance, in a register entirely different from her television work, is among the most distinguished in 2025 German cinema.