The Lives of Others Comments

  • Jovanny 2022-03-23 09:01:20

    Four and a half stars, wet eyes by the ending; even if there are flaws, I still want to believe that there is a touch of warm humanity in this desolation; Brecht's words and Beethoven's music make this rigorous and rigid interrogator slowly Melting, this is really a too idealized story, and also a too cruel story; long-term trust is not safe, the sympathy in the dark will be able to shine in the...

  • Lina 2022-03-23 09:01:20

    "Sophon" in reality, sophon is...

  • Ian 2022-03-23 09:01:20

    The cold state apparatus cannot defeat human nature. Totalitarianism is the most thorough...

  • Leif 2022-03-23 09:01:20

    Using articles instead of meeting made me almost burst into tears! "NO! THIS IS FOR...

  • Cyril 2022-03-23 09:01:20

    After thinking about it, I gave five stars for that calm, non-sensational...

  • Garry 2022-03-22 09:01:16

    Almost guessed everything: guessed that he would like her, would envy their lives, would like the poet's poems, and even guess that he and she would sacrifice themselves to save their love. Are too familiar with such subjects to have any suspense? TNND is...

  • Aurore 2022-03-22 09:01:16

    I was surprised that this film could be watched, and then sorrowed at my...

  • Tremaine 2022-03-22 09:01:16

    The purest political film. Deliberately score a point to remind us not to count on the conscience of the National Security Council in reality, and not to take a fluke in the change of political...

  • Jefferey 2022-03-22 09:01:16

    The plot is very bloody, the details are very...

  • Ladarius 2022-03-22 09:01:16

    The actress being hit and killed by a car is really an obvious...

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.