lady_lazarus
14May11
holy mother of skywalker! this is a debut. i saw this 2 years ago and loved it.
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john saenz
16Nov11
von Donnersmarck's own personal conversation with Coppola's film The Conversation...and boy what a good conversation it is to eavesdrop on.
Daniel Castro
13Nov11
Boa história, boa foto, boa direção de arte. O melodrama mal trabalhado prejudica um pouco o roteiro e o terceiro ato é um pouco lamentável e didático demais.
theNonIrishJazzman
15Aug11
This is one of those very rare films that remind the spectator why film is the best artistic medium, need I say any more.
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Josh Hansen
14Aug11
An extremely subtle and well told film. We witness an embittered servant of the Stasi government transform into a modern day saint by deciding to work towards what he thought was right. His transformation is deeply moving and inspiring, and portrayed with such eloquence.
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Larissa
13Jun11
O início do filme é interessante, e vai perdendo a graça até virar uma história forçada.
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trolley freak
2Jun11
This Oscar winning political thriller about a cold and brutal Stasi official whose stance softens over time as he spies on a playwright, is quite simply a masterpiece. I found it extremely moving and utterly compelling. The late Ulrich Muhe is particularly brilliant as the lonely, humourless interrogator...
kouche
15May11
بشر، قابلیت ِ فروشکستن دارد، شاید فرونریختن ِ کسی از کسان ِ این زمین، غیرممکن باشد، قدرت درست هماینجا نطفه میبندد، فرومیریزاند و برآوار ِ آدمان، پای میفشرد، این فیلم دربارهی بندبازی ِ آدمیاست که خود فرو میریزد و جایی در برابر فرو ریختن ِ آدمی فرو میریزد و این درست دلیل ِ فروریختن ِ قدرت هم هست، فروریختن ِ دیوار ِ برلینهم. این آدم شاید خود دیوار ِ برلین باشد که انتهای فیلم فرو میریزد.
Eivind Nordengen
8Apr11
Litt forskjell på denne og The Tourist (2010). Donnersmarck bør holde seg til tyske, politiske drama.
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James Caley
7Apr11
Watched this with a mate from Germany and was good to have a commentary about the "once upon a time..." premise that was happening the year he and I were born!
Francisco R.
25Mar11
This is an amazing debut from a writer/director. Top notch work all around here.
laura de noves
16Mar11
sonata for a good man -- and a good film. understated but absolutely and utterly precise. a film about the meaning and unquantifiable value of art.
Darren Murray
5Dec10
Amazing film and shocking portrayal of the lengths a State will go to to maintain control. Will make you thankful of the freedom you live in and determined to ensure it does not change,
rorydean
27Oct10
If I'm not mistaken, when this film first came out it was actually called, "The Secret Lives of Other People" or something like that. Not that that has anything to do with the price of tea in china. I love this film. The silence is deafening and the characters are beautiful and nuances and often just like us. The cinematography is breathtaking and it is obvious Donnersmarck is a talented and visionary auteur.
Mayur Karnik
6Aug10
One of the best films I have seen in recent months. Doesn't surprise me that it won an Oscar even with films like Pan's Labyrinth in competition. I wonder how many debutant directors have achieved this in the history of cinema.
Irreversible93
27Jun10
The best part of this movie is, as Agustina says, the subtleties. And how the story is told without necessarily saying it, but by our watching him change from this hard-lined government official finding the enemy in everyone, to becoming a decent person, and putting his own well-being on the line for a man whom he earlier had condemned, only noticing this change through his expressions and actions rather than script.
Agustina
6May10
It's all about subtlety. The batting of an eyelash, the hint of a smile, a sidelong glance... Ulrich Mühe does amazing work in this film as does Florian Henckel with his fine script and great direction. I would have appreciated a bit more of the "artistic flair" visually, but whatever... it is a great film.