Dvd The Lives Of Others Clear

Dvd The Lives Of Others Dvd Clear . In 1984 East Germany, Stasi agent Gerd Wiesler is tasked with spying on celebrated playwright Georg Dreyman. Initially believing Dreyman to be a model citizen, Wiesler uncovers a deeper, more sinister motive behind the surveillance: Minister Hempf´s illicit interest in Dreyman´s girlfriend, actress Christa-Maria Sieland. Witnessing the state´s corruption and a friend´s tragic death, Wiesler´s loyalty begins to shift. As Dreyman risks everything to expose the truth about rising suicide rates, Wiesler faces an impossible choice between duty and conscience. This gripping drama explores the human cost of oppression and the quiet courage of individuals. In 1984 East Germany (GDR), Stasi Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler, code name HGW XX/7, is ordered by his friend and superior, Lt.Col.Anton Grubitz, to spy on playwright Georg Dreyman, whose pro-communist politics and international recognition have so far kept the state from directly monitoring him.Dreyman´s appearance as a model East German mystifies Wiesler the playwright has no known vices or record of disloyalty or dissent at all.At the request of Minister of Culture Bruno Hempf, Wiesler and his team bug Dreyman´s apartment, set up surveillance equipment, and report Dreyman´s activities.Wiesler is disappointed to discover that Hempf is having Dreyman observed not for suspicions of disloyalty or dissent, but for his own lustful interest in Dreyman´s girlfriend, actress Christa-Maria Sieland.After an intervention by Wiesler leads to Dreyman´s discovering Hempf´s coercive relationship with Sieland, he implores her not to meet Hempf again and to be true to herself.She returns to Dreyman´s apartment without seeing Hempf.Dreyman´s friend Albert Jerska, a blacklisted theatrical director, gives him sheet music for Sonate vom Guten Menschen (Sonata about Good People).Shortly afterwards, Jerska hangs himself.Dreyman realises that the GDR has not published its own suicide rates since 1977, and decides to publish an article in Western media.To determine whether or not his flat is bugged, Dreyman and his friends feign a defection attempt.A sympathetic Wiesler does not report it and the conspirators believe they are safe.Since all East German typewriters are registered and identifiable, an editor of prominent West German newsweekly Der Spiegel smuggles Dreyman a Groma Bromaschinen Kolibri, an ultra-flat typewriter, which he hides under a floorboard.It has only a red ribbon, which stains his fingers.Dreyman publishes an anonymous article in Der Spiegel accusing the state of concealing the country´s elevated suicide rates.The article angers the East German authorities but the Stasi cannot link it to a registered typewriter.Rejected by Sieland, Hempf orders Grubitz to arrest her.She is blackmailed into revealing Dreyman´s authorship of the article, although the Stasi do not find the typewriter.Grubitz, suspicious of Wiesler, has him do the follow-up interrogation of Sieland.Wiesler makes Sieland reveal the typewriter´s location.Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.Written by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.Produced by Max Wiedemann Quirin Berg.Starring Ulrich Mhe Martina Gedeck Sebastian Koch Ulrich Tukur. tradeinn Techinn