The Lives of Others - Official Trailer

[proverbialwisdom]

The Lives of Others - Official Trailer

At once a political thriller and human drama, THE LIVES OF OTHERS begins in East Berlin in 1984, five years before Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall and ultimately takes us to 1991, in what is now the reunited Germany. THE LIVES OF OTHERS traces the gradual disillusionment of Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Muhe, best known for his lead roles in Michael Haneke's FUNNY GAMES and as Dr. Mengele in Costa-Gavras' AMEN), a highly skilled officer who works for the Stasi, East Germany's all-powerful secret police. His mission is to spy on a celebrated writer and actress couple, Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others

[KT2000]

1. really good movie n/t

[Voice for Peace]

2. kick and a BIG rec.. this movie is one of my all time favorites.

[rdharma]

3. I know a thing or two about this time in the former East Germany.......

....... it's SO accurate ..... that I can't watch it again.

A great movie....... but so damn creepy and true to life..... I never want to see it again!!!

But you MUST see it once to know the truth of how this shit happens with 'legal' authority.

[DFW]

4. My wife saw this film twice--once in the East and once with me in the West

After we watched the film in Düsseldorf and the lights came on, the whole theater was buzzing with people talking about the film. She said that after she and a friend saw it in Leipzig, in the East, the whole theater was silent with stunned people who had just seen their recent past presented to them.

Ulrich Mühe was brilliant in this role, although the cancer that was eating him up--and killed him soon after--really started to show. Before this film was made, he was best known as sort of a German Quincy, a series about a police forensic pathologist called "Der Letzte Zeuge," or "The Last Witness." It was one of our favorite series at the time, and mainly because Mühe was so good in his role.

[Hissyspit]

5. I STILL have not seen this movie!

I wanted to see it when it first came out.

[DFW]

6. It's pretty powerful

All the more so if you are familiar with Germany, of course, but even if you aren't--a German film winning an Oscar should be indication enough. The only others were Schlöndorff's "Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum&quot ," which was brilliant, and "Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa)," which I didn't see.

[BainsBane]

7. AMAZING film!!!

Truly incredible. Anyone who hasn't seen it, must.

[BainsBane]

8. If you like this film, also see

The Official Story (La historia oficial)

[truth2power]

9. i own the DVD. highly recommended. n/t