Das Leben der Anderen (2006)'s comments

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poiatica

This movie is unbelievable. It is powerful in way that Hollywood hasn't managed to produce in a very long time. I cried for hours after I watched this film and I stopped crying at movie many years ago. It is also stylistically amazing - I grew up in the Soviet Union - it is just so truthful visually.

12 years 7 months ago

dchauvin

Great atmosphere, very well-made film. The story comes together really well at the end spoiler

. Ulrich Muhe's performance is a perfect example of less is more acting (also, he looks a lot like a German Kevin Spacey...), although I was a little bit unsure about the way his character transformed from senior government enforcer to all out empathizer in such a short space of time. Perhaps I'm missing the point and it was supposed to be emphasizing the inherent humanity in everyone, however I felt an interrogator with his supposed track record would not become so easily emotionally attached to the 'artists'. Regardless, it was still a great film.

11 years 11 months ago

jhhayes

This is a great film. It builds slowly, and all the while keeps you fully engaged.

11 years 5 months ago

GremVendetta

I'm convinced this entire film was made just for that final line at the end. Once he said it, my jaw hit the floor. Brilliant. I live for moments like those.

6 years 11 months ago

Troublenight

sonate vom guten menschen

14 years 1 month ago

buteberry

did not know about Glasnost till this. Very deep and full of "information" by all means. A must-see.

11 years ago

sammysin

A thriller that thrills!

11 years 9 months ago

Dieguito

The best movie of DDR.. A real story, incredible!! And the movie is well done, it stays interesting the whole time!

12 years 9 months ago

ReVision

Absolutely amazing, enjoyed this very much!

13 years 8 months ago

CaverX

I believe this movie scratches the surface of the extent to which a police state will invade the private lives of its' citizens.
Very well portrayed.

14 years 4 months ago

airi86ja

Watched this second time and "wow" once again.

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck truly understands art and love how he includes it in his films

"Never look away" i liked more, but this was also very good.

2 years ago

Siskoid

The German entry in the 2007 Academy Awards that won the Oscar (and so, according to my own private rules, the real Film of the Year because I liked it better than the regular category winner that year, The Departed, a silly copy of the superior Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs). It's about a Stasi agent in 1984, spying on an playwright and his actress girlfriend, and for some reason getting so absorbed in their lives, he starts to protect them even when they show signs of dissident behavior. A lot of people have wondered if the switch is believable from such a strict dogmatist, but I saw it immediately. On the one hand, he is a purist who sees all the corruption of the system he prizes, and the corrupt officials are who he's really working against. On the other, his life lacks humor and human contact, and he finds in art, and in living vicariously through artists, some solace. The human drama is subtle and riveting, but on the way, the film also has something to say about how one lives life in a culture of hyper-surveillance (they work in the theater, and there is theatricality to a life known to be observed), which also says something about our culture today, even of the surveillance isn't always the State's (though it can be). And historically, this is also a fascinating document about a very real police state, and the fear it practiced on its citizens. Quite excellent.

8 years 10 months ago