The Lives of Others Comments

  • Arielle 2023-09-30 06:07:01

    I don't see a clear character transformation. The overheard is always wearing a grey G Star style jacket. ....

  • Liana 2023-09-22 18:15:28

    Very touching, all beings under totalitarianism. Human nature, love and betrayal, desire and...

  • Ephraim 2023-09-04 18:53:47

    On how to resist "banal...

  • Monique 2023-09-01 12:12:18

    I have seen and marked the film, but apparently there is none, what happened to the...

  • Duncan 2023-08-23 20:05:27

    After watching the movie and thinking about it carefully, I always feel that it is not worth it - I spend the rest of my life helping a stranger I don't know and only get a book in the...

  • Rylee 2023-07-23 12:40:36

    shocked by the...

  • Pink 2023-07-18 03:47:06

    Line: "Lenin said that if you listen to Beethoven's piano music three times, you will be dead." I actually know that people who can say such words will never be hindered by Beethoven or Goethe. The film is about touch and conscience, the opposite of...

  • Gladyce 2023-06-01 20:31:10

    Shocking and...

  • Judy 2023-04-29 22:48:18

    Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2007. Sonata for a good man. It's a pity that the starring uncle passed away in...

  • Laurine 2023-04-22 22:33:28

    I watched it again and I was still so excited that I...

Extended Reading

The Lives of Others quotes

  • Georg Dreyman: 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.

  • Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Madam?

    Christa-Maria Sieland: Go away. I want to be alone.

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Madam Sieland?

    Christa-Maria Sieland: Do we know each other?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: You don't know me, but I know you. Many people love you for who you are.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: Actors are never "who they are."

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: You are. I've seen you on stage. You were more who you are than you are now.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: So you know what I'm like.

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: I'm your audience.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: I have to go.

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Where to?

    Christa-Maria Sieland: I'm meeting an old classmate. I...

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: You see? Just now, you weren't being yourself.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: No?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: No.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: So you know her well, this Christa-Maria Sieland. What do you think - would she hurt someone who loves her above all else? Would she sell herself for art?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: For art? You already have art. That'd be a bad deal. You are a great artist. Don't you know that?

    Christa-Maria Sieland: And you are a good man.