Reviews of The Lives of Others 2006
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Rythme assez lent mais compensé par d'excellents acteurs.
Le film permets de se rendre compte de la réalité quotidienne du régime soviétique en Allemagne de l'Est (Stasi toute puissante, ses patrons ont tous les droits).
On assiste à la remise en question d'un agent convaincu que ce qu'il fait est bien, pour le bien commun.
Question de l'intégrité des artistes (collaborer ou ne plus être publié/joué).
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A powerful film about the post-nazi years in Germany and how we, as humans, react to the arts. Sad and beautiful.
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Watched it without subtitles and I found the German harder to understand than I expected so I really need to watch it again. It was still a really interesting movie.
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Entertaining, thought provoking and beautiful, this is a film I won't be forgetting in a hurry.
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A film about experiencing feelings through other people. The protagonist is surrounded by isolation, while the people he observes can't live without each other. Masterfully paced, acted, and shot. The Lives of Others is quiet, yet a powerful character study of morality, using subtle yet explosive emotion. Brilliant.
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The most interesting in the movie is character of Agent Gerd Wiesler. He seems to have no feelings to no one, but it gradually changes. Watching his behaviour from stony face to complete transformation is most moving part of the movie.
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Viewed on Netflix
Excellent!
Not one false move here. -
¨The state office for statistics on Hans-Beimler street counts everything; knows everything: how many pairs of shoes I buy a year: 2.3, how many books I read a year: 3.2 and how many students graduate with perfect marks: 6,347. But there's one statistic that isn't collected there, perhaps because such numbers cause even paper-pushers pain: and that is the suicide rate.¨
German director, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, directed and wrote one of the best German films I`ve seen to date:…
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Das Leben der Anderen follows an agent of the secret police in East Berlin as he spies on, and gets increasingly involved with, his subjects. This is a film about voyeurism, humanity and life during the socialist state that was the GDR. First time writer/director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck weaves a precise and intelligent narrative which is engaging and thrilling. Sincere thanks must be given to the excellent cast whose performances make this movie magnificent. This is one of the few depictions of life under the GDR, it should not be missed.
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This film won The Academy Award (Oscar) for “Best Foreign Language Film” and all sorts of other European film awards, back in 2006 when it was released … and I missed it; until now.
In 1980′s German Democratic Republic (a dictatorship), East German Secret Police a.k.a. Stasi surveillance agent Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler (Muhe) is sent on a mission to keep tabs on potentially-radical playwright Georg Dreymann (Koch) and his live-in lover actress Christa-Maria Sieland (Gedeck).
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scene360.com/articles/12494/the-lives-of-others-2006/(Review by Mike Philbin)
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This is my all-time favorite film. The first time I watched it was in a directing class in school. I remember the professor asking us about lighting techniques and sound afterwards. How could I remember such things (which are, no doubt, perfection) when the story was so powerful? I had cried through the last third and I did again today when I rewatched it.
I think the reason this movie resonates so much with me is because it represents a…
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17th Film for Around the World in May- Germany
Another film that I had on my watchlist for a long long time and thanks to this challenge for getting me down to finally watching it.
A beautiful and deeply moving film that shows the humanity inside every person and how a random stranger can go out of their way to help out another.
Intelligent and gripping throughout its runtime and each character is presented well and their parts well drawn…