An outstanding psychological and political thriller by first-time writer/ director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck – so outstanding it beat out Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth for last month’s Best Foreign Film Oscar – The Lives Of Others unfolds in Communist East Germany during the ’80s. At that time the State Security system, the much-feared Stasi, employed 100,000 officers and 200,000 informants in order to “know everything” about the country’s citizens. The Lives Of Others examines the chilling realities of existence under a totalitarian system.
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AKRajala
Mar 2nd 2010, 0:38
Without a word of hyperbole, perhaps the single best film I've ever seen.
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