Das Leben der Anderen (2006)'s comments

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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 1 month ago

Zov

I did not expect this movie to be so good. It will be one of the movies I will mention when someone asks for a recommendation.

3 years 10 months ago

adastras

Well made, but boring.

6 years 7 months ago

Adamov10

wow what a movie

6 years 8 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.

7 years ago

urastarburst

Simply a great movie, nothing else needs to be said.

8 years 3 months 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

demagogo

When I were to see this, I thought it would be like any anti-Communist piece of propaganda made by Americans. I got surprised, though, and felt kinda touched as it was passing by. Proof you can't buy not being vulgar with a $50+ million budget.

8 years 11 months ago