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Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, this is a first-rate thriller that, like Bertolucci's The Conformist and Coppola's The Conversation, opts for character development over car chases. The place is East Berlin, the year is 1984, and it all begins with a simple surveillance assignment: Capt. Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe in a restrained, yet deeply felt performance), a Stasi officer and a specialist in this kind of thing, has been assigned to keep an eye on Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch, Black Book), a respected playwright, and his actress girlfriend, Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck, Mostly Martha). Though Dreyman is known to associate with the occasional dissident, like blacklisted director Albert Jerska (Volkmar Kleinert), his record is spotless. Everything changes when Wiesler discovers that Minister Hempf (Thomas Thieme) has an ulterior motive in spying on this seemingly upright citizen. In other words, it's personal, and Wiesler's sympathies shift from the government to its people--or at least to this one particular person. That would be risky enough, but then Wiesler uses his privileged position to affect a change in Dreyman's life. The God-like move he makes may be minor and untraceable, but it will have major consequences for all concerned, including Wiesler himself. Writer/director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck starts with a simple premise that becomes more complicated and emotionally involving as his assured debut unfolds. Though three epilogues is, arguably, two too many, The Lives of Others is always elegant, never confusing. It's class with feeling. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Beyond The Lives of Others
 Films from Germany |  Other Cold War Films |  More Arthouse Selections from Sony Pictures Classics |
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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 2006 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Sony Pictures |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Academy Award Winner, Best Foreign Picture, Das Leben der Anderen, Drama, Foreign, Leben der Anderen, Das, Lives of Others, Oscar Winner, The lives of others |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 043396170858 |
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Don't miss the director's commentary! I will not share my impressions of this brilliant film, because so many other reviews have pointed out its excellence in regard to plot, cinematography, acting etc. and I agree completely. But I do want to urge everyone who watches it to watch it straight through and then go into the special features and set it up so you can watch it again with the director's commentary. This dvd is loaded with extras (including deleted scenes, none of which are outstanding or necessary) but I was most impressed with the honest heartfelt commentary by the writer/director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck that I highly recommend everyone buy the film - even if you watched it on the big screen - just for this very reason. The Lives of Others is indeed one of the best films of the decade.
A film for those who love people.
First off, the beauty of this film to me was that one could have a both fairly cerebral and emotional reaction to this movie rather easily. I mean that in the best of ways. "The lives of others" starts out with the decision of the state to monitor a playwrite, for reason's that are not exactly the purest. But soon stasi (secret police) member Gerd takes sympathy with those he is forced to watch, and according to some, seems to fall in love with their lives. The plot thickens as a article written by a secret east german writer appears in the west, who the goverment believe to the character of Georg who is already under watch. Thought the rest of the movie, Gerd takes action to make sure that Georg is protected from the over zealous hammer of authority. One can only wish we met such people more often. Without giving away the rest of the plot, a great deal of drama, wonderful acting, and a amazing background setting(I must find out where this is filmed!). One of the wonderful things I took away from this movie, was seeing the person make the choice of using his ethics and heart, rather than excusing himself with the old failed defense of "taking orders". Any serious fan of film would be doing themselves a great diservice to miss one of the best films i've seen in quite a long time.
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>Hopefully, things will get together and the DVD will be realised here in the next month. I think this film is worthy of a criterion release as well, hopefully they notice it, although I imagine with a spiffy DVD or not, i'll be buying this movie soon after it is released.
fantastic movie that will stay with you for a long time!
I loved this movie!
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>SO thought provoking and such insight into 1980's East Germany.
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>As everybody has said...great acting/strong story.
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>I cannot say much more than saying this is an unforgettable movie that is so entertaining and tense at times!
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