wow!

Rating: Null/10 (21 April 2007)

Te best movie I've seen this year. Touching...And I don't expect that lots of people will understand. Can't understand something you never pass through. This movie is a political thriller and human drama; The action begins in East Berlin in 1984, five years before the fall of the Berlin Wall and ultimately takes us to 1991, in what is now the reunited Germany. THE LIVES OF OTHERS traces the gradual disillusionment of Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Muhe, a highly skilled officer who works for the STASI, East Germany's secret police. His mission is to spy on a celebrated writer and actress couple, Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck). Wiesler, who has been monitoring all of Dreyman's activities, finally has the proof he needs to destroy his subject and to serve the GDR by foiling Dreyman's plot. But Wiesler's unemotional façade is showing signs of erosion. While he observes the day-to-day life of Dreyman and Christa-Maria, he begins to be drawn into their world. In 1991, two years following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dreyman learns that he had been the subject of a STASI surveillance. Immediately afterward, he finds the cables and microphones secretly installed years earlier behind the wallpaper in his apartment. In disbelief, he sets out to research and discovers the different reality of his past, which not only has a profound impact on his life but also surprises him with shocking revelations. THE LIVES OF OTHERS is a human drama about the ability of human beings to do the right thin.