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Who Watches the Watchers?
One of the things that a really good movie can do, even more so than a really good novel, is to transport the audience back to another time, another place. But this "feel" is something more than just sets and costumes, it's a mindset, something the Germans call the zeitgeist, which literally... Read full review »
Orwellian Tale in a Real Life Environment
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) is a 2006 German movie, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Movie. Ironically , or coincidentally, set in 1984 it depicts an Orwellian like totalitarian society, centering on the lives of a government Stasi official and a group of... Read full review »
The Pleasure of Destroying Other People's Lives
After a streak of bad Hollywood movies, I cannot stop thinking about this stunningly beautiful German movie I just saw on DVD. This gem of a film marks the debut of a young German director, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. If this is indeed his debut, we have witnessed a star being born.
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2007's Oscar Winner The Lives Of Others: Escaping Our Prisons~
With 154 professional reviews of it on the Internet Movie Database and 42 wins from both critics and non-critics worldwide, including an Oscar this year for Best Foreign Language Film, I was not surprised at its ratings on this site (in "movies in theaters" section). I'm so delighted to tell you... Read full review »
Hopeless, Corroded Lives in a Police State
The German Democratic Republic's Stasi (Gestapo-like State Secret Police) insinuated itself into the private lives of its citizens. The government of paranoia found it necessary to snoop upon its people, hoping to root out any persons who did not meet the test for utter loyalty to the regime, and... Read full review »
East Germany Before Glasnost and Perestroika
Glasnost means openness. Perestroika means restructuring. I remember serving in the Marine Corps and being amazed that we would allow Russian brass examine our troops. The Russians seemed fascinated at the structure of the Marine Corps (and US Military in general) and the... Read full review »
Truth and reconciliation in a way only possible in East Germany
Auteur Florian Henckle von Donnersmarck created The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen). Surveillance plays a huge role in this film weighing in at a bit over 2 hours. From time to time, the film can be as stagnant as endless surveillance. However . . .
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Stasi Eyes, Ve're Vatching You, Listening To Your Every Move
Written & directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) tells the story of East Germans secret police monitoring the culture scene of East Berlin. When one of its surveillance agents uncovers something he hears involving one of his superiors and a...
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Checkpoint Charlie: Welcome to 1984
Of all the communist states, East Germany had the most elaborate and insidious secret service. It is said (by wikipedia) that 1 in every 50 East German citizens was collaborating with the Stasi (the East German secret police). It was a world in which people had to be afraid of everyone -- even... Read full review »
Living Large
An intense character study of the East German control of Socialist thinking in the 1980s before the Wall came down, The Lives of Others is a precise view of how government controls the thoughts and actions of the populace by intimidation and imprisonment.
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Lives of Others DVD
In East Berlin in 1984 the secret police known as the Stasi are gaining more and more control spying on German citizens and recruiting thousands of them to spy on each other. Captain Gerd Wiesler Ulrich Mhe has been ordered to find something on playwright Georg Dreyman Sebastian Koch so he sets up a surveillance room and listens closely as Dreyman his actress girlfriend Christa-Marie Sieland Martina Gedeck and various suspected radical friends gather in their apartment. But when Wiesler discovers that culture minister Bruno Hempf Thomas Thieme cast suspicion on Dreyman only so he can have his way with Sieland the master interrogator and torture teacher starts taking a long look at just what it all is about. THE LIVES OF OTHERS cowritten and directed by first-timer Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is a tense compelling thriller about a critical time in German history. Mhe is mesmerizing as the complicated Wiesler a loyal soldier until he learns too much. The wildly talented Koch is outstanding as Dreyman a man with a lot to say but desperate to avoid the same fate as his mentor theater director Albert Jerska Volkmar Kleinert. Inspired by actual events and real characters THE LIVES OF OTHERS was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2007. Interestingly during and after the filming of the movie several of the actors including Mhe found out that they or their families had been victims of the Stasi--and in one case the father of an actor Charly Hubner was revealed to have been a member of the Stasi himself.
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