The Lives Of Others | ||||
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme 2006 |
Although Germany has been a unified democracy since 1990, its eastern sector
was a Soviet satellite from the end of World War II through the 1980s and
home to a repressive totalitarian government that used the Stasi, the secret
police, to control its citizens. The terrific, incisive drama "The Lives
of Others" an
exceptional first feature by screenwriter/director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck shows
the horrors, hysteria and tragedy of life in communist East Germany, circa
1984, through the machinations of dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler. | |||
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