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cypezokyli
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Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 2344
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i just watched this german movie in the cinema.
i would guess the translation would be "the life of the others" - but you never know with films.
in short it is amazing.
a real shocking movie.
i would recomment it to everyone.
its about the east german secret police. |
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city
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Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 3370 Location: Larnaca area
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haven't seen it, but here some more info http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/ , includes a long review as well
I must admit I'm not very keen on movies about recent east german history.
Somehow its touching me too much I guess.  |
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thebrix
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Joined: 19 Aug 2005 Posts: 526 Location: London, United Kingdom
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| cypezokyli wrote: |
i just watched this german movie in the cinema.
i would guess the translation would be "the life of the others" - but you never know with films.
in short it is amazing.
a real shocking movie.
i would recomment it to everyone.
its about the east german secret police. |
Obtained via bittorrent. Agreed - it is a masterpiece.
Die Untergang was also outstanding; is there something in the water over there?  |
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cypezokyli
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Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 2344
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| city wrote: |
haven't seen it, but here some more info http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/ , includes a long review as well
I must admit I'm not very keen on movies about recent east german history.
Somehow its touching me too much I guess.  |
it is a touching moovie. after the movie was over there was this absolute silence in the cinema. the east german fellow student who was sitting next to me...i would bet that he almost cried.
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whats a "bittorent" ?
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ok, i will get out of topic now , but i just saw an old movie : "arizona dream".
kosturiza and brekovic , as usual amazing combination... it always ends up being sth... surreal |
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Khan
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Joined: 13 Nov 2005 Posts: 1092 Location: London
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I have read about the STASI during my course, apparently they had something like 1/3 of the population spying on each other. They racked up millions of files worth of information on their citizens. They opened up their archives some years ago for people to see their own files, and found that their best friends, associates, girlfriends etc had been spying on them!
p.s. bittorrent is a download program. |
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cypezokyli
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Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 2344
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Oscars 2007: The winners
Best foreign language film
Das Leben der Anderen (aka The Lives of Others), Germany
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