Das Leben der Anderen - The Lives of Others (2006) English,Chn,Ja subtitles

One of the most moving movies I've seen in a long time!

Great for everyone who still remembers the wall,

and the seriousness of the problem of a government spying on it's people.



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AudioCodec: 216kbps 6 channels 48kHz AAC LC VBR

Language: German



Subtitle 1: English

Subtitle 2: Chinese Simplified

Subtitle 3: Japanese



Some user Comments:



103 out of 131 people found the following comment useful.

The hit at Telluride, 5 September 2006

10/10 Author: meyerhar from United States



This was my favorite film at Telluride. Everyone with whom I talked had the same feeling. It generated the most "buzz." I hope it has a wide audience in the US. The acting by those who experienced the Stasi was moving and believable. Ulrich Muhe as the Stasi Officer was brilliant. Most of us cried during the final scene. Florian Henckel-Donnersmarck's direction with its twists and turns kept the audience glued to the screen. Because of the film's popularity, it was scheduled again for another showing at the festival. Both Muhe and Henckel-Donnersmarck were present and were stopped where ever they went during the festival. I recommend this film and gave it a 10.



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438 out of 546 people found the following comment useful :-

The most underrated film of 2006., 17 January 2007

10/10 Author: jesse3 from los angeles california



Holy cow! What a terrific movie! I am a voting member of the Academy (actor's branch) so I get all the films for free. I've seen everything---60 films. This was one of the last 3 films that I saw---because I was completely unfamiliar with the title. This film slowly gripped me, but by the end, the grip was merciless. The lead actor, who should be doing The Life Story Of Peter Jennings, was wonderful. Everybody was terrific. Congratulations to the writers for their perfect structure---and to the director for his flawless storytelling---and his eliciting of top performances from his actors. How well cast it was.



But now I'm totally bewildered. Why haven't I heard anything about this film? Where was this film at the Golden Globes? I haven't even seen any reviews about it. Nothing! What's going on? I'm very active in the film business. I follow this stuff. This film (that I never heard of) took me by surprise as no other film has ever done.



Jesse Vint III



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254 out of 288 people found the following comment useful :-

Intelligent and moving dealing with GDR history, 24 March 2006

10/10 Author: anastasia_smile from Germany



East Berlin, November 1984. Five years before its downfall the GDR seeks to maintain its power with the help of a merciless system of control and observation. 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. For most important politicians are responsible for this "operative act".



What Wiesler did not expect: the intimate view on the world of the ones he's observing changes the snitch as well. Looking at "the life of the others" makes him aware of the beggarliness in his own life and enables access to a so far unknown world of love, free thinking and speaking he is hardly able to elude. But the system can't be stopped anymore and a dangerous game, which destroys the love of Christa Maria Sieland and Georg Dreymann and Wieslers present existence begins.



Until the fall of the wall each of them has paid a big price. After that a whole new world begins.



My personal opinion - though it doesn't count that much - is that this one a an absolute Must See. I can hardly remember such an intelligent and moving German movie especially not including the whole topic of GDR history and the dealing with it. 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.



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A wonderful film that deserves a wide audience, 11 September 2006

8/10 Author: boblovinger from United States



I saw this film in its North American premiere in a packed theater at the Toronto Int'l Film Festival this past week and was pleased to be part of a standing ovation at the end for the director and star, who were both on hand.



"The Lives of Others," set in East Germany not long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, tells the moving story of a police investigator forced to confront himself and the work he does. In a society poisoned by secrecy, fear and the abuse of power, a number of the movie's characters -- artists, actors, writers -- must look deep inside and decide what they are made of; none more so than the investigator.



This is a movie that took me to a place and time that felt very authentic, for a tale that was very satisfying.



Ulrich Muhe, who plays the investigator, is mesmerizing, and the young director is to be applauded for this, his first full-length film. Some have compared "The Lives of Others" to Coppola's "The Conversation" but the two have completely different story arcs and are only superficially similar.



Both my companion and I felt this was our favorite of the six films we had a chance to see at the festival.



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192 out of 213 people found the following comment useful :-

Brilliant and terrifying!, 27 August 2006

10/10

Author: René (rfak) from Vienna, Austria



After several light features (like the highly successful "Good-bye Lenin"), who evoked a popular nostalgia, it was about time that the dark past of the DDR is finally the topic of a movie. Not that I condemn light entertainment. There surely were plenty of happy times for the people in the DDR as well as in every other society. But, just like in the Biedermeier time at the beginning of the 19th century in middle Europe, the DDR was controlled by an omnipresent secret service, the Stasi, which forced people to be quiet about their true feelings. Considering this, the cry for the good old' times is simply inappropriate.



The movie tells the story of Stasi agent Wiesler (brilliant Ulrich Mühe), who follows his guidelines with chilling accuracy. His newest assignment is to wiretapping famed author Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and his companion, actress Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck). Listening to their conversations, he gets more and more caught in their lives.



Wiesler, as he is played here by Ulrich Mühe, is not an individual, but a symbol for the whole system, where people did everything they were told to do. Clad only in gray and brown, filmed in stark and cold light, he's at first not capable of feelings. On the other hand Dreymann and Sieland represent the anti-Establishment, the intellectuals, who were severely hunted, arrested and killed by the government.



The most frightening aspect here is the banality of it all. The offices are bleak, the people talk about bugging operations etc. with a frighting causality. These men in grey look, talk and behave like boring civil servants, and their approach, the "normality" of their job makes it terribly chilling.



Director Florian Henckel-Donnersmarck is also able to recreate a feeling of constant observance and spying. In a disturbing scene a harmless joke becomes the center of suspicion and fear. We can glimpse how it must have been for citizens of the DDR, to live with constant suppression of their free will and opinion.



As important it is, not to forget the good things and memories people might have of their past, it's also important not to forget or to reduce the impact and fear that this regime put on their people for 40 years.



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