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🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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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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