Living another kind of life

Rating: 8/10 (29 December 2006)

It wasn't long ago, that this was a reality. DDR, a paranoid country, with Stalinist views, wanting to know everything about everybody for the safety of itself.
Ulrich Mühe is absolutely brilliant here as the very strict Stasi captain, who changes bit for bit. He really starts to live the live of others. Not because he's in a claustrophobic state of mind. But he's the watcher who is conquered by what he watches.
There are many clues in this movie, which you come to think about afterward. In a way just like the Stasi captain. This is another example of German film coming back on its previous high level.