Das Leben der Anderen (Why We Love Cinema)
Weekends@Cinémathèque
The Multiple Pleasures of Cinephilia
♥ because of the potent dramatization of a dark chapter in German history
Das Leben der Anderen
The Lives of Others Allemagne 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | vostEN | 137’ | 35mm | Cast : Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Martina Gedeck
► Best Foreign Language Film, Oscars 2007
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
« It's hard to believe this is von Donnersmarck's first feature. His storytelling gifts have the novelistic richness of a seasoned master. » (Newsweek)
« Keine Ostalgie, keine Spreewaldgurken-Folklore, keine Trabi-Witze. Sondern eine Porträt-Galerie der zynischen Machthaber, der Karrieristen und Mitläufer, und die Wandlung Wieslers - das Herzstück des Films. » (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
