THE LIVES OF OTHERS (2006)
FLORIAN HENCKEL VON DONNERSMARCK
ThrillerDramaPolicePolitics1980sCivil RightsDetectives & Private EyesAde TasticsNigel's ChoiceRob RecommendsDave B's Must SeesAdam's FavesOscar WinnersRecommended
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Plot
It's 1980s East Germany and our anti-hero, an accomplished surveillance officer, is ordered to spy on a successful and outwardly loyal playwright and his actress girlfriend, but the motive is not entirely political, involving the lust for the girl of a political commissar and the career prospects of his immediate superior. The Stasi officer is dragged into the Kafkaesque web created by this moral duplicity in this compelling and twisting tale. First class.