“Her çağ, bir sonrakini düşlemekle kalmaz, ama düş kurarak uyanışı da zorlar.”
Walter Benjamin
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Başkalarının Hayatı - Das Leben der Anderen - The Life of Others
At once a political thriller and human drama, THE LIVES OF OTHERS begins
in East Berlin in 1984, five years before Glasnost and the fall of the
Berlin Wall and ultimately takes us to 1991, in what is now the reunited
Germany. THE LIVES OF OTHERS traces the gradual disillusionment of
Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Muhe, best known for his lead roles in
Michael Haneke's FUNNY GAMES and as Dr. Mengele in Costa-Gavras' AMEN), a
highly skilled officer who works for the Stasi, East Germany's
all-powerful secret police. His mission is to spy on a celebrated writer
and actress couple, Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and Christa-Maria
Sieland (Martina Gedeck).