The Lives of Others

DaithaiC : "This is the world examined as the endgame of the East German State was approaching in The Lives of Others (original German: Das Leben der Anderen) is a German film, marking the feature film debut of writer and director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's Secret Police listened to your secrets and in 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives."