- Is everything all right? - Yes
- Hi, Franz - See you!
- Don't you want an apple? - This one is enough. Thanks.
- How can you do this? - Well, with two months of training.
- March! Stab!
Move, move! Stab! Move!
- Take positions!
[haggling] - 114... - 135... Come on: that price is very good
- Those are fields taken in military campaigns.
- Seized by German soldiers.
- I've been called up.
- Cheers!
- Cheers, this is to the new times! Cheers!
- Gruss Gott. [Salute in Southern German]
- Just let me do it. - I'll speak with him
...he says he is going through hard times
[Complains in German] ...Then, what have we come here for?
- The Bishop is waiting.
- Thank you.
- Heil, Hitler!
- Have fear of Hitler!
[Mayor yells slogans]
[Mayor Kraus raves and rants- soldiers cheer him]
- Let him go in peace! - Watch out! You dogs!
- Gruss Gott. [South German salute: hello, good evening.]
- You want to follow the train? Be careful!
- Name?
- Jagerstatter, Franz. From Radegund by-the-Danube
- Next one!
[Reciting oath to Hitler]
- This is just a mistake: a bureaucratic mess. You know? [Italian jailmate]
- I´m a good person...[Italian jailmate]
[grunts mimicking Hitler]
- ...and I don´t want to know what the fuck I've done - but they've done bad things. [Italian rants on ]
- Me... - I don't want to be with these people!
- And every day it's like this! Understand? - Why me? [Italian jailmate]
[Bosnian jailmate yells] - Where's my water, you son of a bitch?
- Go on!
- Get away from each other!
- Walk! [guard snaps order]
- Who do you think you are out there... Uh?
- What now? - What?... What?... What?
[prisoners' senseless speech and laugh]
- Your hands! Your hands up!
- Get in!
- Jagerstatter [Franz' surname]
- Out! Eveybody out!
- You find it funny, uh? - Eyes... on the floor!
[barking insults in German] - ...broken again!
- Show me your hands... - Hold up your hands.
- Do you understand me?
"No talking allowed!" [written on the wall]
- Bausthulter. High treason.
- Jagerstatter. Undermining of military morale
- Jagerstatter!
[village kids harass family's girls - priest intervenes]
[man roars] - Traitors to the German cause!
- We are under pressure, - because of something you did!
- Shame on you!
- You deserve... you deserve... - to be executed!
- They should be there! - Yeah! - They should hang you!
- Traitors to the German cause!
- Leave us alone! [Resie yells at them to stop the harassing]
- Good morning!
- Good morning [Fani to clerk]
- Thank you. [Father to clerk]
- Is everything OK?. Do you want to talk? [priest visiting prisoners]
- Quit talking and move along!
- Franz? [Waldland calls] - Franz
- Franz Jagerstatter. Driver at the headquarters - of the reserve motorized brigade in Enns.
- Born on May 20th, 1907 - in Radegund-on-the-Danube.
- Currently in custody at the Werhrmacht´s - preventive prison in Berlin-Tegel.
- He refused again to comply with the - conscription laws of February 24th, 1935 - to his active duty service
- at the 17th motorized brigade in Enns. - The defendant failed to... [prosecutor's voice fades away]
- Stop being so insolent! - Who do you think you are?
- You are being a coward! - You're acting the martyr!
- You rejected your duty... - while all of us go on fulfilling our duties - to save your life!
- Give ear to my prayer, O God; - and hide not thyself from my supplication!
[Fani's voice] - Attend unto me, and hear me: - I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
[Fani] - My heart is sore pained within me: - and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
[Prosocuter reads charges]
[prosecutor's voice fades away]
- Faster!
- Against the Wall!
- Move yourselves!
- Sit down!
[Franz hushes gently to calm his mate]
- Next one!
- Bring in the next one!
- Next one!
- Jagerstatter!
- Born on May 20th, 1907 - in Radegund on-the-Danube....
- From the prison of Berlin Tegel.
- Scharfrichter! [calls executioner]
- Watch you step! [instruction to guards]
His death sentence was nullified in 1997 by a Berlin court.
After the war, a group of nuns brought his ashes back to Sankt Radegund
At the Mass of his beatification in 2007 , Franz was remembered as a normal person with his faults.
Judge Lueben, was asked to to condemn three priests in 1944. Instead, he chose to commit suicide.