Ulrich Mühe in The Lives of Others
Last week, we rented The Lives of Others (2007 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film), a German drama about the GDR’s secret police monitoring artists in East Berlin. It was a powerful reminder of what life was like in East Germany prior to the fall of the Berlin wall. The film was incredibly moving, the kind that stays with you. One of the best I’ve seen this year – I highly, highly recommend it.
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Tara, another really powerful yet heartbreaking movie is “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”…have you seen it? It’s during the start of the ‘work camps’ in Nazi Germany, kind of shows how naive people were of what was really going on at the time. Very moving though..
you’re the second person to recommend that movie! i’ll have to check it out! how’s SB life?? i saw on your blog that you got a job, it sounds like the perfect spot to be until a library position opens up.