Director: Andreas Dresen
From Hilde, with Love is a 2024 German drama directed by Andreas Dresen, running 124 minutes and set in Berlin during the middle years of the Second World War. It follows a young woman named Hilde and the circle of friends and colleagues around her, moving between a warm personal story and the tense conditions of the period.
What is From Hilde With Love about?
The film opens in 1942 and traces two intertwined timelines. In one, Hilde is a young woman in wartime Berlin who becomes close to Hans, a member of the same underground circle, and the two share a brief summer of ordinary happiness. In the other, set after the group's activities draw the attention of the authorities, Hilde is held in custody while heavily pregnant. Rather than build toward a single dramatic reveal, the narrative alternates between these strands, letting the earlier scenes of courtship and friendship sit beside the later scenes of confinement. The result is a quiet, character-led account of a small group of people living through an era of surveillance and risk, told largely through everyday moments rather than large-scale events.
Cast & crew
Liv Lisa Fries plays Hilde, with Johannes Hegemann as Hans. The ensemble also includes Alexander Scheer, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Emma Bading, Sina Martens, Lisa Hrdina, and Lena Urzendowsky. The performances are restrained and naturalistic, matching the film's low-key visual approach.
Context & significance
The film is based on real people and events connected to a resistance network active in Berlin during the early 1940s, a group later gathered by investigators under a single umbrella name. Director Andreas Dresen is known in German cinema for grounded, observational dramas about ordinary lives, and here he applies that same approach to a historical subject. The screenplay was written by Laila Stieler. The production is German, in the German language, and premiered on the international festival circuit in 2024 before its wider release. The 124-minute running time is used less for action than for gathering small details of daily life under the conditions of the time.
Where & how to watch
From Hilde, with Love is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login. K-Time is a Persian-focused streaming service built for the Iranian diaspora, with a Farsi interface and Farsi-language navigation. For this title both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles are provided, so viewers can watch in dubbed form or in the original German with Farsi subtitles. The film page itself is free to read without signing in; starting playback requires logging in to a K-Time account.