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The Lives of Others (2006) |
Country: Germany |
Genres: Drama, Thriller |
Taglines: Where power is absolute, nothing is private. [Scandinavian Blu-ray.] |
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
Writers: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
Stars: Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, ... |
| Gerd Wiesler is an officer with the Stasi, the East German secret police. The film begins in 1984 when Wiesler attends a play written by Georg Dreyman, who is considered by many to be the ultimate example of the loyal citizen. Wiesler has a gut feeling that Dreyman can't be as ideal as he seems and believes surveillance is called for. The Minister of Culture agrees but only later does Wiesler learn that the Minister sees Dreyman as a rival and lusts after his partner Christa-Maria. The more time he spends listening in on them, the more he comes to care about them. The once rigid Stasi officer begins to intervene in their lives, in a positive way, protecting them whenever possible. Eventually, Wiesler activities catch up to him and while there is no proof of wrongdoing, he finds himself in menial jobs - until the unbelievable happens. |
| When uncle Hauser is calling from Berlin (West) you can see a bus from the public transportation service that was not introduced until the mid or late 1990s, passing the phone booth. |
| When Dreyman finds Wiesler in the end, the cars in the background are current, not from 1991. |
| Wiesler's car - a Wartburg - is in fact a model which wasn't produced until the end of the '80s (the rear lights revealed it). Meanwhile the soundtrack contains sound of the old - two-stroke - engine, and -somewhat confusingly- at the exhaust you can clea |
| When Oberstleutnant Anton Grubitz meets with Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler in his office, he is wearing a ribbon bar for medals on his uniform. One of the ribbons is for the "Ehrenmedaille 30 Jahre Nationale Volksarmee" (30th Anniversary of National People's Arm |
| When Dreymann is looking through his own Stasi observation files, the typeface used in the layouts of the forms is "Avenir". This typeface was introduced in 1988, whereas the forms were supposedly written in 1984. |
| When Dreyman is playing the sonata that Jerska gave him, he looks only at his fingers, and never at the music that's on the stand, even though he's playing it for the first time. |
| Secretary Hempf's car is a 1980s stretch version of a Volvo 264. But all the interior scenes are shot using a Mercedes Benz S-Class Pullmann from the time of the film production. In a short clip the Mercedes is also used for an exterior shot, when Grubitz |
| The font generated by Wiesler's typewriter is sans-serifed, whereas the font on the 'same' reports read by Dreyman towards the end of the movie is quite different, this time serifed. |
| When Dreymann is putting on his tie before his birthday party with the assistance of his neighbor, Frau Meineke, he finishes the job by folding down and adjusting his shirt collar. In the next shot, his shirt collar is "up" once again and needs to be fold |
| When Grubitz talks to Wiesler in the cafeteria, the amount of liquid in their glasses falls and rises over the course of the scene. |
| When Grubitz is talking to Wiesler in his office, he takes a fresh cigar out of a Humidor. After the next cut, only three seconds later, he is smoking and the cigar looks like it has been smoked for a longer time. |
| When Wiesler and Grubitz are having lunch with some Stasi-members, there isn't anything on their plates. |
| In the final interrogation of Sieland by Wiesler, he sketches the floor plan in about 5 seconds, and definitely doesn't have time to make the double thickness lines, markers for windows, and door swing arcs. It in fact looks like at least two different pe |
| When Dreymann discovers the microphone towards the end of the film, the wallpaper under the light switch is already ripped, which only happens in the next scene. |
| Wiesler's belt is done and his shirt tucked in when the prostitute leaves yet when last seen it is clearly undone. However, Wiesler's head remains visible throughout and he is not seen to move. |
| When Christa sees where the typewriter is hidden, we see Dreyman hiding it and the papers with it. When she comes in and goes away, he puts the papers again in the hiding spot. |
| When Minister Bruno Hempf gestures at Schwalber, he is looking at the wrong direction while Schwalber arrives from behind Georg Dreyman's back. |
| As Minister Hempf is munching on a cutlet, the bitten parts change between shots. |
| When Wiesler and Dreyman are having lunch at work, the amount of beer in Wiesler's glass keeps changing. |
| Christa-Maria and Georg's apartment is in Wedekind street in Friedrichshain, as confirmed in the DVD commentary. The buildings in the entire quarter surrounding Wedekindstr were part of a massive rebuilding project in the GDR, and were completed in the ea |
| After publication of Dreyman's article in "Der Spiegel", Stasi Oberstleutnant Grubitz is on the phone with an army general. He says they were able to procure a "Lichtpause" (diazocopy) of the original article. When talking with the typography expert, the |
| In the attic listening post, Udo once addresses Wiesler as "Hauptmann" which the subtitles translate as "Comerade"; however, hauptmann is Wiesler's rank: captain. The spoken line was like a formal "yes, Captain" rather than "yes, comrade". |
| The literal translation of "Das Leben der Anderen" into English would be "The Life of Others." However, the pluralization rules for collective nouns are different in German than in English, so "The Lives of Others" more accurately conveys the sense of the |
| In the first scene in the theater, a program clearly states the birthdate of Georg as 1939, but just a few scenes later he says he is preparing for his 40th birthday. As the action is said to take place in 1984, there is a five-year discrepancy. [Possibil |
| When Dreyman looks through the files in the Stasi archives, near the end of the film, he wants to find out what "HGW XX/7"'s real name is. The clerk flips through the card box to find Wiesler's card. Before he pulls it out, four cards by the same name of |
| When Dreymann hides in the staircase watching his girlfriend coming out of the minister's car, he stands by an electronic switch of a design which is too new to fit with the time period of the movie. The same thing happens when Wiesler hides himself the s |
| The gray Zuk van used by the Stasi squad, which has a 2L I4 four stroke engine in reality, has the sound of a two stroke engine (probably a Wartburg/Barkas) when they arrive with it to (don't) find the typewriter at Georg's flat. |
| When Dreymann holds Sieland's dead body outside in the street, her right hand moves for a second. |
| Wiesler's car - a Wartburg - is in fact a model which wasn't produced until the end of the '80s (the rear lights revealed it). Meanwhile the soundtrack contains sound of the old - two-stroke - engine, and -somewhat confusingly- at the exhaust you can clea |
| When Oberstleutnant Anton Grubitz meets with Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler in his office, he is wearing a ribbon bar for medals on his uniform. One of the ribbons is for the "Ehrenmedaille 30 Jahre Nationale Volksarmee" (30th Anniversary of National People's Arm |
| Secretary Hempf's car is a 1980s stretch version of a Volvo 264. But all the interior scenes are shot using a Mercedes Benz S-Class Pullmann from the time of the film production. In a short clip the Mercedes is also used for an exterior shot, when Grubitz |
| In the final interrogation of Sieland by Wiesler, he sketches the floor plan in about 5 seconds, and definitely doesn't have time to make the double thickness lines, markers for windows, and door swing arcs. It in fact looks like at least two different pe |
| When Dreymann is putting on his tie before his birthday party with the assistance of his neighbor, Frau Meineke, he finishes the job by folding down and adjusting his shirt collar. In the next shot, his shirt collar is "up" once again and needs to be fold |
| Dreyman puts on his tie and flips his collar down, but when Christa Maria enters the room the collar is still up. |
| Christa-Maria and Georg's apartment is in Wedekind street in Friedrichshain, as confirmed in the DVD commentary. The buildings in the entire quarter surrounding Wedekindstr were part of a massive rebuilding project in the GDR, and were completed in the ea |
| After publication of Dreyman's article in "Der Spiegel", Stasi Oberstleutnant Grubitz is on the phone with an army general. He says they were able to procure a "Lichtpause" (diazocopy) of the original article. When talking with the typography expert, the |
| The literal translation of "Das Leben der Anderen" into English would be "The Life of Others." However, the pluralization rules for collective nouns are different in German than in English, so "The Lives of Others" more accurately conveys the sense of the |
| In the first scene in the theater, a program clearly states the birthdate of Georg as 1939, but just a few scenes later he says he is preparing for his 40th birthday. As the action is said to take place in 1984, there is a five-year discrepancy. [Possibil |
| When Dreyman looks through the files in the Stasi archives, near the end of the film, he wants to find out what "HGW XX/7"'s real name is. The clerk flips through the card box to find Wiesler's card. Before he pulls it out, four cards by the same name of |
| At the end of the film, when Georg sits in his cab watching Wiesler delivering mail, right before the end of the scene two people with reflective vests are visible in the background. Presumably they are keeping bystanders from entering the shot. |
| When Dreymann hides in the staircase watching his girlfriend coming out of the minister's car, he stands by an electronic switch of a design which is too new to fit with the time period of the movie. The same thing happens when Wiesler hides himself the s |
| Wiesler's car - a Wartburg - is in fact a model which wasn't produced until the end of the '80s (the rear lights revealed it). Meanwhile the soundtrack contains sound of the old - two-stroke - engine, and -somewhat confusingly- at the exhaust you can clea |
| When Oberstleutnant Anton Grubitz meets with Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler in his office, he is wearing a ribbon bar for medals on his uniform. One of the ribbons is for the "Ehrenmedaille 30 Jahre Nationale Volksarmee" (30th Anniversary of National People's Arm |
| Secretary Hempf's car is a 1980s stretch version of a Volvo 264. But all the interior scenes are shot using a Mercedes Benz S-Class Pullmann from the time of the film production. In a short clip the Mercedes is also used for an exterior shot, when Grubitz |
| In the final interrogation of Sieland by Wiesler, he sketches the floor plan in about 5 seconds, and definitely doesn't have time to make the double thickness lines, markers for windows, and door swing arcs. It in fact looks like at least two different pe |
| When Dreymann is putting on his tie before his birthday party with the assistance of his neighbor, Frau Meineke, he finishes the job by folding down and adjusting his shirt collar. In the next shot, his shirt collar is "up" once again and needs to be fold |
| Christa-Maria and Georg's apartment is in Wedekind street in Friedrichshain, as confirmed in the DVD commentary. The buildings in the entire quarter surrounding Wedekindstr were part of a massive rebuilding project in the GDR, and were completed in the ea |
| After publication of Dreyman's article in "Der Spiegel", Stasi Oberstleutnant Grubitz is on the phone with an army general. He says they were able to procure a "Lichtpause" (diazocopy) of the original article. When talking with the typography expert, the |
| The literal translation of "Das Leben der Anderen" into English would be "The Life of Others." However, the pluralization rules for collective nouns are different in German than in English, so "The Lives of Others" more accurately conveys the sense of the |
| In the first scene in the theater, a program clearly states the birthdate of Georg as 1939, but just a few scenes later he says he is preparing for his 40th birthday. As the action is said to take place in 1984, there is a five-year discrepancy. [Possibil |
| When Dreyman looks through the files in the Stasi archives, near the end of the film, he wants to find out what "HGW XX/7"'s real name is. The clerk flips through the card box to find Wiesler's card. Before he pulls it out, four cards by the same name of |
| When Dreymann hides in the staircase watching his girlfriend coming out of the minister's car, he stands by an electronic switch of a design which is too new to fit with the time period of the movie. The same thing happens when Wiesler hides himself the s |
| Wiesler's car - a Wartburg - is in fact a model which wasn't produced until the end of the '80s (the rear lights revealed it). Meanwhile the soundtrack contains sound of the old - two-stroke - engine, and -somewhat confusingly- at the exhaust you can clea |
| When Oberstleutnant Anton Grubitz meets with Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler in his office, he is wearing a ribbon bar for medals on his uniform. One of the ribbons is for the "Ehrenmedaille 30 Jahre Nationale Volksarmee" (30th Anniversary of National People's Arm |
| Secretary Hempf's car is a 1980s stretch version of a Volvo 264. But all the interior scenes are shot using a Mercedes Benz S-Class Pullmann from the time of the film production. In a short clip the Mercedes is also used for an exterior shot, when Grubitz |
| In the final interrogation of Sieland by Wiesler, he sketches the floor plan in about 5 seconds, and definitely doesn't have time to make the double thickness lines, markers for windows, and door swing arcs. It in fact looks like at least two different pe |
| When Dreymann is putting on his tie before his birthday party with the assistance of his neighbor, Frau Meineke, he finishes the job by folding down and adjusting his shirt collar. In the next shot, his shirt collar is "up" once again and needs to be fold |
| Christa-Maria and Georg's apartment is in Wedekind street in Friedrichshain, as confirmed in the DVD commentary. The buildings in the entire quarter surrounding Wedekindstr were part of a massive rebuilding project in the GDR, and were completed in the ea |
| After publication of Dreyman's article in "Der Spiegel", Stasi Oberstleutnant Grubitz is on the phone with an army general. He says they were able to procure a "Lichtpause" (diazocopy) of the original article. When talking with the typography expert, the |
| The literal translation of "Das Leben der Anderen" into English would be "The Life of Others." However, the pluralization rules for collective nouns are different in German than in English, so "The Lives of Others" more accurately conveys the sense of the |
| In the first scene in the theater, a program clearly states the birthdate of Georg as 1939, but just a few scenes later he says he is preparing for his 40th birthday. As the action is said to take place in 1984, there is a five-year discrepancy. [Possibil |
| When Dreyman looks through the files in the Stasi archives, near the end of the film, he wants to find out what "HGW XX/7"'s real name is. The clerk flips through the card box to find Wiesler's card. Before he pulls it out, four cards by the same name of |
| When Dreymann hides in the staircase watching his girlfriend coming out of the minister's car, he stands by an electronic switch of a design which is too new to fit with the time period of the movie. The same thing happens when Wiesler hides himself the s |
| Wiesler's car - a Wartburg - is in fact a model which wasn't produced until the end of the '80s (the rear lights revealed it). Meanwhile the soundtrack contains sound of the old - two-stroke - engine, and -somewhat confusingly- at the exhaust you can clea |
| When Oberstleutnant Anton Grubitz meets with Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler in his office, he is wearing a ribbon bar for medals on his uniform. One of the ribbons is for the "Ehrenmedaille 30 Jahre Nationale Volksarmee" (30th Anniversary of National People's Arm |
| Secretary Hempf's car is a 1980s stretch version of a Volvo 264. But all the interior scenes are shot using a Mercedes Benz S-Class Pullmann from the time of the film production. In a short clip the Mercedes is also used for an exterior shot, when Grubitz |
| When Dreymann is putting on his tie before his birthday party with the assistance of his neighbor, Frau Meineke, he finishes the job by folding down and adjusting his shirt collar. In the next shot, his shirt collar is "up" once again and needs to be fold |
| In the final interrogation of Sieland by Wiesler, he sketches the floor plan in about 5 seconds, and definitely doesn't have time to make the double thickness lines, markers for windows, and door swing arcs. It in fact looks like at least two different pe |
| Christa-Maria and Georg's apartment is in Wedekind street in Friedrichshain, as confirmed in the DVD commentary. The buildings in the entire quarter surrounding Wedekindstr were part of a massive rebuilding project in the GDR, and were completed in the ea |
| After publication of Dreyman's article in "Der Spiegel", Stasi Oberstleutnant Grubitz is on the phone with an army general. He says they were able to procure a "Lichtpause" (diazocopy) of the original article. When talking with the typography expert, the |
| When Wiesler goes to the observatory post in the uppermost floor of Dreyman's house he comes from the far right. His assistant leaves through the main door, which is probably the only entrance to the uppermost floor. In the other scenes Wiesler enters thr |
| The literal translation of "Das Leben der Anderen" into English would be "The Life of the Others." However, the pluralization rules for collective nouns are different in German than in English, so "The Lives of Others" more accurately conveys the sense of |
| In the first scene in the theater, a program clearly states the birthdate of Georg as 1939, but just a few scenes later he says he is preparing for his 40th birthday. As the action is said to take place in 1984, there is a five-year discrepancy. [Possibil |
| When Dreyman looks through the files in the Stasi archives, near the end of the film, he wants to find out what "HGW XX/7"'s real name is. The clerk flips through the card box to find Wiesler's card. Before he pulls it out, four cards by the same name of |
| When Dreymann hides in the staircase watching his girlfriend coming out of the minister's car, he stands by an electronic switch of a design which is too new to fit with the time period of the movie. The same thing happens when Wiesler hides himself the s |
| Wiesler's car - a Wartburg - is in fact a model which wasn't produced until the end of the '80s (the rear lights revealed it). Meanwhile the soundtrack contains sound of the old - two-stroke - engine, and -somewhat confusingly- at the exhaust you can clea |
| When Oberstleutnant Anton Grubitz meets with Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler in his office, he is wearing a ribbon bar for medals on his uniform. One of the ribbons is for the "Ehrenmedaille 30 Jahre Nationale Volksarmee" (30th Anniversary of National People's Arm |
| Secretary Hempf's car is a 1980s stretch version of a Volvo 264. But all the interior scenes are shot using a Mercedes Benz S-Class Pullmann from the time of the film production. In a short clip the Mercedes is also used for an exterior shot, when Grubitz |
| When Dreymann is putting on his tie before his birthday party with the assistance of his neighbor, Frau Meineke, he finishes the job by folding down and adjusting his shirt collar. In the next shot, his shirt collar is "up" once again and needs to be fold |
| In the final interrogation of Sieland by Wiesler, he sketches the floor plan in about 5 seconds, and definitely doesn't have time to make the double thickness lines, markers for windows, and door swing arcs. It in fact looks like at least two different pe |
| Christa-Maria and Georg's apartment is in Wedekind street in Friedrichshain, as confirmed in the DVD commentary. The buildings in the entire quarter surrounding Wedekindstr were part of a massive rebuilding project in the GDR, and were completed in the ea |
| After publication of Dreyman's article in "Der Spiegel", Stasi Oberstleutnant Grubitz is on the phone with an army general. He says they were able to procure a "Lichtpause" (diazocopy) of the original article. When talking with the typography expert, the |
| When Wiesler goes to the observatory post in the uppermost floor of Dreyman's house he comes from the far right. His assistant leaves through the main door, which is probably the only entrance to the uppermost floor. In the other scenes Wiesler enters thr |
| The literal translation of "Das Leben der Anderen" into English would be "The Life of the Others." However, the pluralization rules for collective nouns are different in German than in English, so "The Lives of Others" more accurately conveys the sense of |
| In the first scene in the theater, a program clearly states the birthdate of Georg as 1939, but just a few scenes later he says he is preparing for his 40th birthday. As the action is said to take place in 1984, there is a five-year discrepancy. [Possibil |
| When Dreyman looks through the files in the Stasi archives, near the end of the film, he wants to find out what "HGW XX/7"'s real name is. The clerk flips through the card box to find Wiesler's card. Before he pulls it out, four cards by the same name of |
| When Dreymann hides in the staircase watching his girlfriend coming out of the minister's car, he stands by an electronic switch of a design which is too new to fit with the time period of the movie. The same thing happens when Wiesler hides himself the s |
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