Rating of
3.5/4
Non-stop interrogation.
gideon43 - wrote on 05/26/10
A staggeringly good movie which looks at the totalitarian state of East Germany before the fall of the Berlin wall.
As important as a History Lesson in Germanys recent troubled past as it is as a cracking political thriller, The Lives of Others never puts a foot wrong.
A meticulous and subtle production that carefully structures a storyline rife with suspense, the characters never take obvious routes and even in an oppressive society dominated by the East German State, there is a fine line between the good guys and the bad guys.
A well deserving winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
