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The Lives of Others
Before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's population was closely monitored by the State Secret Police. Gerd Wiesler, an agent of the Stasi, the East German Secret Police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
4 December 1972, Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
11 June 1955, Wuppertal, Germany
29 March 1974, Düsseldorf, Germany
20 September 1938, Dresden, Germany
1965, Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
1968, Lagos, Nigeria
23 March 1956, Sonthofen, Germany
18 August 1971, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
1999
29 July 1957, Viernheim, Hesse, Germany
1959, West Berlin, West Germany
10 September 1957, Meiningen, German Democratic Republic
13 May 1971, Freiberg, German Democratic Republic
1957, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
3 December 1982, Berlin, Germany
1967, Dresden, German Democratic Republic
14 September 1961, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
20 May 1958, Arnsberg, Westphalia, Germany
29 October 1948, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany
1949, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
26 August 1955, Stralsund, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
1956
September 19, 2010
Activism proves tough on people who've thrived at their political patrons' blessings, and one character cruelly chooses a path of least resistance when the chips are down. A cataclysmic conclusion depicts political clamps on expression and emotion.
June 09, 2008
Although Henckel von Donnersmarck has a number of genuinely good ideas ... the film is marred by redundancy, indecision and clumsiness.
June 24, 2008
A truly unforgettable movie.
September 26, 2014
Reopens our eyes to the cruelties and soul assassinations that were carried out daily in the name of state socialism.
August 24, 2009
If the filmmaker commits a crime, it's in pushing the [Stasi] character's rehabilitation slightly too far--about as much as the weight of a teardrop.
March 02, 2007
A political thriller that's consistently as inventive as it is creepy.
August 05, 2011
The scope is especially impressive given that the movie is about a society obsessively focused on the tiniest of details.
September 21, 2007
The Lives of Others is a powerful but quiet film, constructed of hidden thoughts and secret desires.
March 02, 2007
Few would deny that The Lives of Others is true to its self, and in its depiction of human nature -- and human spirit.
March 02, 2007
Watch it, and you may get the feeling it's also watching you.
March 02, 2007
Its suspense builds on the fragile and nuanced business of emotional rebirth.
March 16, 2007
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's film is a melodrama in a minor key, quietly affecting, quietly chilling, quietly quiet. It captures the drab architecture of totalitarianism, the soul-dead buildings of a soul-dead state.
