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The Lives of Others (2006)

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Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5942 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Nicholas Ragovis / AKA Doctor_Nick has come to claim a commissioned podcast, the 2006 German film The Lives of Others. Written and directed by Henckel von Donnersmarck, the movie offers a look into the brutal repression and paranoia of the East German State Police during the 80s, and the effects it had on the lives of those that had to live under it. But there is hope in the form of a Stasi captain that has to confront his own conscious and humanity during an assignment to monitor an esteemed playwright. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody we're back for another

0:01.9

another to the victor goes the spoils

0:06.0

cause dr nick won our second fantasy football league here at

0:11.2

bald move dr nick aka nicholus here at Bald Move. Dr. Nick, aka Nicholas Ragovis, he has selected for his

0:19.4

Commission the Lives of Others, a 2006 German film directed by Florian Henkel-avana-Damerschmark.

0:27.0

That can't be right, but let's go with it.

0:30.0

Hey, I'm I am the resident German American, so I'm quite certain of my pronunciation there.

0:38.0

Nick, Nick says, I went to Berlin a few years ago and took a tour of the East Berlin prison where some of this

0:44.3

movie was shot, the Hohen Shanhausen on a tour led by a former prisoner.

0:52.0

The prison in Stasi, the East German

0:54.0

Seger Police Buildings, are the center of a residential area which was

0:57.0

populated mostly by Stasi employees. It was a political prison. Most of the

1:01.3

prisoners didn't even know where they were in Berlin, no one ever escaped that prison.

1:07.0

Providing often fake information or often fake evidence, selling out relatives and friends, was one of the only ways out and the Stasi would show you

1:14.4

evidence against you often from your own. You can imagine what a corrupting

1:18.6

influence this was on the well-being of a populace and maybe appreciate the movie

1:21.7

more for expressing that sort of malaise.

1:24.3

This film is sad, but somewhat hopeful look at how authoritarian bureaucratic states grind

1:29.5

down its citizens, especially the citizens it uses as its tools.

1:33.0

This is a pretty good film, I thought, Jim.

1:38.0

Oh yeah, absolutely.

1:39.0

I think in 2006 it won the foreign language film Oscar so yeah might have even I'd have to look

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