What a film!!

Rating: 9/10 (6 July 2019)

Five years before its downfall the GDR seeks to maintain its power with the help of a merciless system of control and observation. Gerd Wiesler is instructed to spy upon a famous writer his girlfriend who is a famous actress. What Wiesler did not expect: the intimate view on the world of the ones he's observing changes himself as well. Looking at "the life of the others" makes him aware of the hollowness in his own life and enables access to a so far unknown world of love, free thinking and speaking he is hardly able to elude. Not only does this film represent a riveting thriller, but it provides a powerful political message.