Another The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) (2006) By Cynthia Fuchs / 9 February 2007 . Gerd Wiesler is an officer with the Stasi, the East German secret police. But I'd like to see it dubbed so it had a wider audience. Germany, 2006. The lives of others is an achievement in Wolfenstein: The New Order. "[39] Because of this interview, sales of Le Figaro more than doubled. Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) stars as a playwright who comes under state scrutiny and who smuggles a report embarrassing to the East German regime out of the country. The film is built "on layers of emotional texture", wrote Stephanie Zacharek in Salon online magazine. Use the HTML below. [26], According to German author Christoph Hein, the movie is loosely based on his life story. While he's holed up in the loft with a broken knee cap, Beckett goes off to investigate the death of an IRS agent without him, leaving Castle miserable and bored. "[12][13], Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four stars, describing it as "a powerful but quiet film, constructed of hidden thoughts and secret desires. He drew a direct comparison to Henckel von Donnersmarck's film: "This is not a scene from that marvellous film "The Lives of Others," about East Germany and the activities of the Stasi. In the show's 100th episode, Castle finds himself in the unfortunate position of NOT being able to work a case. The Lives of Others cost US$2 million[3] and grossed more than US$77 million worldwide as of November 2007[update]. But if they know – and one thing they can do with that information right now – is to turn people into informants, so that the government has not only the information that people say on electronic devices, they have what they say in the bedroom, because their wife or their whoever – spouse – is an informant. [6], Although the opening scene is set in Hohenschönhausen prison (which is now the site of a memorial dedicated to the victims of Stasi oppression), the film could not be shot there because Hubertus Knabe, the director of the memorial, refused to give Donnersmarck permission. The film and its principals have won numerous awards. In 1984, Communist East Germany, every kind of human action is strictly controlled and monitored by the government. A grieving Dreyman decides to publish an anonymous article in Der Spiegel, a prominent West German newsweekly. Dreyman's article accuses the state of concealing the country's elevated suicide rates. By Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa. [10], A review in Daily Variety by Derek Elley noted the "slightly stylized look" of the movie created by "playing up grays and dour greens, even when using actual locations like the Stasi's onetime HQ in Normannenstrasse. ELLSBERG: My knowledge of the Stasi is not very extensive, but it's largely from a movie called The Lives of Others, which won the Oscar for "Best Foreign Film" some years ago. Wiesler learns that Dreyman has been put under surveillance at the request of the Minister of Culture, Bruno Hempf (Thomas Thieme), who covets Dreyman's girlfriend, actress Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck). After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver. A look at how some recent photobooks, featuring African subjects, rehash pejorative tropes. When Oberstleutnant Anton Grubitz puts loyal Stasi-Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler on to the famous writer Georg Dreymann and his girlfriend Christa Maria Sieland who is a famous actress herself, he expects career advancement for himself. The film's authenticity was considered praiseworthy given that the director grew up outside of East Germany and was 16 when the Berlin Wall fell.[4]. Knabe's answer: "But that is exactly the difference. The Minister of Culture agrees but only later does Wiesler learn that the Minister sees Dreyman as a rival and lusts after his partner Christa-Maria. He has said that, on visits there as a child before the Berlin Wall fell, he could sense the fear they had as subjects of the state.[5]. But I don’t get to choose the film this time. I think this is the first German movie which shows this system as it used to be (which has been confirmed by several contemporary witnesses) and not turns it and its people into comedy though there have been several good ones, of course. This is France. See more ideas about documentaries, the lives of others, best documentaries. Grubitz informs Wiesler that the investigation is over and so is Wiesler's career: His remaining years with the agency will be in Department M, a dead-end position for disgraced agents. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love. A shocked Dreyman runs out after her and Sieland dies in his arms. I do not understand the "telephone joke" that Grubitz tells in the MfS cafeteria, Gedenkstätte Hohenschönhausen, Hohenschönhausen, Berlin, Germany. Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. June 2020 issue Download PDF Adjust Share My friend Jenny Boylan and I are both incorrigible dinner-party raconteurs who love to one-up each other with stories about our misspent youths and eccentric families. There was no Wiesler. Everybody should get that now. When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp. garykmcd. In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives. 420 of 470 people found this review helpful. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie. "[16], American commentator John Podhoretz called the film "one of the greatest movies ever made, and certainly the best film of this decade. The film was released in Germany on 23 March 2006. But today we mustn't pat anyone on the head or we'll get our hand bitten off; we've got to hit them on the heads, hit them without mercy, though in the ideal we are against doing any violence to people. He was listening to music and recalled Maxim Gorky's saying that Lenin's favorite piece of music was Beethoven's Appassionata. 291 talking about this. 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