A tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the system.
Few would deny that The Lives of Others is true to its self, and in its depiction of human nature -- and human spirit.
– Terry Lawson,
Detroit Free Press,
2 Mar 2007
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A political thriller that's consistently as inventive as it is creepy.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
2 Mar 2007
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Its suspense builds on the fragile and nuanced business of emotional rebirth.
– Amy Biancolli,
Houston Chronicle,
2 Mar 2007
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Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's film is a melodrama in a minor key, quietly affecting, quietly chilling, quietly quiet. It captures the drab architecture of totalitarianism, the soul-dead buildings of a soul-dead state.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
16 Mar 2007
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The Lives of Others is a powerful but quiet film, constructed of hidden thoughts and secret desires.