Berlin, 1942. Hilde and Hans spend a wonderful summer. They are in love and are expecting a baby. But Hans is a member of the resistance, and the couple are soon arrested by the gestapo. Highly pregnant Hilde finds herself in prison …
The Film was based on a true story by Andreas Dresen ( stopped on the way ).
... it would be worth highlighting another striking peculiarity, which indicates a deeply thought-out script and directorial decision: we practically do not see violence in the film. And that's the creepy thing. The Nazi regime – or any other totalitarian regime-was not a caricatured parade of monsters, but was composed and facilitated by the most ordinary people, with such and such beliefs, who, even at the height of the war, lived their daily lives, only performed their services, and even at this time people fell in love and gave birth …
I believe that this is a greatly underestimated aspect of the film and that its hidden mastery lies precisely in the way in which the narrative slides in the calm, slow rhythm of the Chronicle of a love story towards a tragedy that can be guessed in advance. With its apparent simplicity, Hilde is a truly shocking, timeless humanistic reminder.«
- Gorazd Trushnovec, Radio Slovenia
Berlin, 1942. Hilde in Hans preživita čudovito poletje. Zaljubljena sta in pričakujeta otroka. Toda Hans je član odporniškega gibanja in par kmalu aretira gestapo. Visoko noseča Hilde se znajde v zaporu …
Film je po resnični zgodbi posnel Andreas Dresen ( Ustavljen na poti ).
...bi veljalo izpostaviti še eno markantno posebnost, ki kaže na scenaristično in režijsko globoko premišljeno odločitev: v filmu tako rekoč ne vidimo nasilja. In to je tisto grozljivo. Nacistični režim – ali pa katerikoli drug totalitarni režim – ni bil karikirana parada pošasti, ampak so ga sestavljali in omogočali najbolj navadni ljudje, s takimi in drugačnimi prepričanji, ki so tudi na vrhuncu vojne živeli svoja vsakdanja življenja, samo opravljali svoje službe in tudi v tem času so se ljudje zaljubljali in rojevali …
Menim, da je to močno podcenjena plat filma in da je njegovo skrito mojstrstvo prav v načinu, kako drsi pripoved v mirnem, počasnem ritmu kronike neke ljubezenske zgodbe proti tragediji, ki jo je možno slutiti že vnaprej. Celovečerec Z ljubeznijo, Hilde tako s svojo navidezno preprostostjo predstavlja resnično pretresljiv, brezčasen humanistični opomin.«
– Gorazd Trušnovec, Radio Slovenija