Sunday, October 28, 2007

The Lives of Others

“In East Berlin, five years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe) of the secret Stasi police is given the mission to spy on a celebrated writer and actress couple (Sebastian Koch, Martina Gedeck) for the German Democratic Republic. But Wiesler's loyalty begins to erode as his immersion in "the lives of others," in love, literature and freethinking, makes him acutely aware of the shortfalls of his own existence.” Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film. Official Web Site

I didn't think I'd like this film because it beat "Pan's Labryinth" for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, but I found myself entangled in the web of The Lives of Others.

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