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BT /Artifact BMC The Lives of Others is Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's first feature film. /Span <> BDC Surely those who suffered for decades under the Stalinist dictatorship had stories worthy of the screen. <0037004b00480003002f004c005900480056000300520049000300320057004b004800550056>Tj Synopsis Before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's Secret Police Listened to Your Secrets. /Span <> BDC <00460052004f004f004400450052005500440057004c0051004a0003005a004c0057004b0003002d0036003700320035>Tj 0000611745 00000 n /Artifact BMC The Lives of Others (2006) Awards. /F1 12 Tf 0000000015 00000 n 0000008904 00000 n /F1 9 Tf /Span <> BDC 0000008198 00000 n After he left Munich for Berlin in 2001, though, much work lay ahead, including research in Stasi archives, visits to Stasi detention centers and interviews with East German artists and former Stasi members. 84 0 obj /F1 12 Tf BT Writer/director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck starts with a simple premise that becomes more complicated and emotionally involving as his assured debut unfolds. Q %PDF-1.7 36 612.58 Td Cast: BT 576 547 l <00380051004c0059004800550056004c0057005c00030029004c004f00500003000900030039004c004700480052000300240056005600520046004c00440057004c00520051>Tj 0000611860 00000 n 36 688 m “It can bring feelings into your life whether you want it to or not,” he said. /F1 12 Tf ET ET /Artifact BMC “For a long time I wanted to be a novelist,” he said, “but then I felt that films were more the art of our time. endobj endobj 0000000737 00000 n /F1 9 Tf q /F1 12 Tf At that moment “The Lives of Others” was born. /Artifact BMC q By then he also had an idea, born of a film school lecturer’s demand that students come up with 14 original movie treatments in eight weeks. 0 q BT /F1 12 Tf And as it happens, it was also music, not the Stasi, that inspired the 33-year-old director. He also stands out among his cynical and corrupt Stasi colleagues: he is a true believer. ET <004b0057005700530056001d00120012005a005a005a0011004d0056005700520055001100520055004a00120056005700440045004f0048001200140013001100180017001300190012004d0049004c004f00500059004c004700480052001100190015001100140010001500110013001300140016>Tj <00030044005500480003>Tj But, then, there's a lot of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. The Lives of Others (2006) by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is a film set during the Cold War Period, a time where German secret police called the Stasi existed and went through extreme measures to prove the people’s loyalty to their country. ( 95.183.180.42 on Sun, 09 Dec 2018 02:08:48 UTC )Tj stream EMC “I suddenly had this image in my mind of a person sitting in a depressing room with earphones on his head and listening into what he supposes is the enemy of the state and the enemy of his ideas, and what he is really hearing is beautiful music that touches him,” Mr. Henckel von Donnersmarck said. 1 0 0.21256 1 234.96 96.56 Tm ET EMC q BT q endobj /F1 9 Tf 1 0 0.21256 1 81.55 612.58 Tm It is a movie about ideology, collaboration, opportunism, fear and courage, elements common to many a confrontation between human nature and authoritarian power. <0036005700440045004f0048000300380035002f001d0003>Tj It offers us a glimpse of life behind the Iron Curtain of communist East Germany, and the lengths the government went to keep tabs on its citizens. “Then I started listening to music and remembered Maxim Gorky, who quoted Lenin as saying that Beethoven’s ‘Appassionata’ was his favorite piece of music. Q 79 17 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, who won the Academy Award for writing and directing The Lives of Others, is re-teaming with his partners from that … ET q 87 0 obj The Lives of Others. Q <0003>Tj EMC /F2 8 Tf ET BT “I was lying on the floor feeling miserable and thinking, ‘Oh, I’ve picked the wrong profession,’ ” he said. “There is no way you can defend yourself against it. ET <002b004800510046004e0048004f0003005900520051000300270052005100510048005500560050004400550046004e>Tj ET EMC 310.62 664.58 Td /Span <> BDC How is a West German film-maker (and such a young one at that, he's only 34) qualified to make a film about the GDR? /F1 9 Tf 0000008343 00000 n /Span <> BDC ET Written and directed by the then 33-year old Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck at his first feature film debut, The Lives of Others accurately captures the atmosphere of extreme political claustrophobia and paranoia that millions of citizens had to endure for more than 40 … Ulrich Mühe’s performance as the Stasi … /F1 12 Tf /Span <> BDC <003300580045004f004c0056004b0048004700030045005c001d0003>Tj /F1 12 Tf He points out that he did not set out to make a film "about the GDR". BT The atmosphere is taut and cold. EMC Two years later he began studying politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford University. Still, the unexpected success of his $2 million film, “The Lives of Others,” starring stalwarts of German cinema like Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch and Ulrich Tukur, suggests that the ghosts of Communism — and, above all, of the regime’s secret police, the Stasi — are far from laid to rest. 36 592.58 Td 0 0 0 RG BT <003600520058005500460048001d0003>Tj q She has reviewed films for 25 years and continues to review and write with her most recent work on food in film. Florian Von Donnersmarck on The Lives Of Others The writer-director of the Oscar-winning drama about life under the Stasi in 1980s East Germany says the issues the film raises are still raw, and explains why emotion is an enemy of the state Q Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, who won the Academy Award for writing and directing The Lives of Others, is re-teaming with his partners from that … EMC << /Length 6611 >> EMC 107.21 560.58 Td Empathy and identification in Von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others. /Span <> BDC q Yet the 45 years that East Germany spent under Communist rule has remained largely unexplored. <001d0003002400510003002c00510057004800550059004c0048005a0003005a004c0057004b0003003a0055004c00570048005500120027004c00550048004600570052005500030029004f00520055004c00440051>Tj <0057005200030047004c004a004c0057004c005d0048000f000300530055004800560048005500590048000300440051004700030048005b005700480051004700030044004600460048005600560003005700520003>Tj BT ET BT /Span <> BDC << /Filter /FlateDecode /S 231 /Length 198 >> I didn’t even know anyone who knew anyone who worked in movies. For this, detainees were required to wipe a cloth between their legs. <00380051004c0059004800550056004c0057005c0003005200490003002c004f004f004c00510052004c0056000300330055004800560056000300520051000300450048004b0044004f004900030052004900030057004b0048000300380051004c0059004800550056004c0057005c00030029004c004f00500003000900030039004c004700480052>Tj /F1 12 Tf q /F1 12 Tf ( )Tj /Im3 Do 36 490.31 Td The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany) By Richard Porton. 168.75 0 0 52.5 38 701.5 cm EMC 85 0 obj EMC Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is a director and writer. EMC --Kathleen C. Fennessy. ET endobj BT ET /Span <> BDC <0003>Tj 256.78 -14.24 Td Q EMC EMC 2006 ‘Das Leben der Anderen’ Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. <0003>Tj q <0003>Tj /Artifact BMC q And he said he believes they remain influential in blocking exposure of Stasi crimes. “My God, I thought, I have just spent five years at university,” he recalled. Q Q 86 0 obj EMC BT <000f0003>Tj <00380051004c0059004800550056004c0057005c0003005200490003002c004f004f004c00510052004c0056000300330055004800560056>Tj 212.71 96.56 Td <0003>Tj EMC q 36 632.58 Td “That’s just the setting.”. EMC No less disturbing, Mr. Henckel von Donnersmarck concluded that few former Stasi operatives have any regrets. 36 664.58 Td trailer << /Info 74 0 R /Root 80 0 R /Size 96 /Prev 1179000 /ID [<6489fc4657594f5fb6210cb6050e8fba><9f048ca5f9be18ea7d910751fd70f598>] >> EMC Well, yes, up to a point. /F1 12 Tf The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen, 2006) was writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s remarkable feature-film debut that has attracted widespread international acclaim [1,2,3] and won a US Oscar for Best Foreign Film. ET ET 91.26 87.56 Td ET <002400580057004b00520055000b0056000c001d0003>Tj Upon finishing all of his course work in 2001, he decided to make a feature film instead of another short as a graduation movie. << /Length1 518848 /Length 518848 >> endobj 0000009166 00000 n << /BaseFont /NUXGUU+Code2000 /DescendantFonts [ 85 0 R ] /Encoding /Identity-H /Subtype /Type0 /ToUnicode 89 0 R /Type /Font >> q 576 688 l Learning from History in The Lives of Others: An Interview with Writer/Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck diane carson diane carson is professor emerita at St. Louis Community College at Meramec. 416.59 96.56 Td S /F2 8 Tf 36 481.31 Td 1 0 0.21256 1 91.26 96.56 Tm <0027002c0024003100280003002600240035003600320031>Tj The problem was that I didn’t know anyone who worked in movies. “It’s not a Stasi film,” Mr. Henckel von Donnersmarck said, stretching his 6-foot-8-inch frame under the dining table of his roomy apartment here. But I took his advice and went to film school in Munich. Get the IMDb App. The most popular post-cold-war movie about East Germany, “Good Bye Lenin!,” was a 2003 comedy that provoked a bizarre wave of nostalgia for life before the Berlin Wall was breached in November 1989. /Span <> BDC The Lives of Others. /Artifact BMC Yet in the end Mr. Henckel von Donnersmarck sees his movie as a tribute to the power of music. With one Stasi veteran he raised the question of so-called “odor samples” that allowed dogs to establish if suspects attended meetings of dissidents. <0003>Tj Q << /Length 7944 >> Q FOR years, at times almost obsessively, German cinema has been examining this country’s Nazi past and its troubled conscience. 396.33 96.56 Td 0000544996 00000 n Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others tells the story of an agent for the East German secret police – the Stasi – Cpt Gerd Wiesler, who is tasked with spying on a playwright, Georg Dreyman, and his actress girlfriend Christa-Maria Sieland. q 83 0 obj stream It just has that power.”, Behind the Berlin Wall, Listening to Life, https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/movies/awardsseason/07ridi.html. BT But when one evening he hears Mr. Dreyman playing the piano (a piece composed for the film by Gabriel Yared), he is suddenly moved, even disturbed. 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