The Lives of Others

[lang rabbie]

Ulrich Muhe died recently.

That is sad news.

Does anybody know whether "Mein Führer - Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler" (The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler) which apparently has a great comic role by Muhe will be released here?

 

[districtline]

yeah, the right-wing reactionary ulrich mühe died the other day.

finally some peace and quiet for those of his "enemies" that he accused of being stasi spies.

 

[goldenecitrone]

That is sad news.

Does anybody know whether "Mein Führer - Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler" (The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler) which apparently has a great comic role by Muhe will be released here?

I doubt it. No other Helge Schneider films have ever been released here. Even with subtitles they would be pretty hard for English audiences to understand.

 

[frogwoman]

Excellent excellent film. Just seen it ... bloody hell

 

[_pH_]

bump!

wow.

i've just watched this.

wow.


powerful stuff, i was riveted. historically: absolutely fascinating, the level of paranoia and state control in the DDR is something I wouldn't want to experience. not knowing who to trust....

a theme that came out of it for me is probably best described as confusion....or uncertainty maybe. the confusion in wiesler's mind around his loyalty to the state. dreyman's confusion about christa's fidelity. the confusion of the young lad in the stasi cafeteria, not knowing whether he should laugh or cry.

brilliant film.

 

[Dillinger4]

*bump*

This is on BBC4 at 10pm tonight, if anybody is interested.

 

[goldenecitrone]

*bump*

This is on BBC4 at 10pm tonight, if anybody is interested.

Das Leben der Anderen. Guten Morgen Liebe Sonne, Guten Morgen Liebe Erich!

 

[toblerone3]

*bump*

This is on BBC4 at 10pm tonight, if anybody is interested.

Is it on iPlayer?

 

[Dillinger4]

Is it on iPlayer?

I doubt it, the films never are.

 

[toblerone3]

I'll have to get from the local video shop.

 

[Reno]

I doubt it, the films never are.

A couple of weeks ago they had the French thriller Tell No One on iPlayer after it was on BBC4.

 

[Louloubelle]

Wow

Really excellent film on so many levels.

 

[smmudge]

The only way I see this film is in direct response to the wave of Ostalgie (and most notably that of Goodbye, Lenin) rather than any realistic take on East Germany. Interesting that this thread has come very close to saying it at times but it only remained implicit.

 

[Red Horse]

Diese film ist sehr sehr fucking excellent

 

[Reno]

The only way I see this film is in direct response to the wave of Ostalgie (and most notably that of Goodbye, Lenin) rather than any realistic take on East Germany. Interesting that this thread has come very close to saying it at times but it only remained implicit.

That's how it may look like in the UK, were so few German films get seen, but if anything it's the other way round. Most fiction and non-fiction dealing with the former East Germany in Germany have historically dealt with Stasi terror etc., it's just that most of this work doesn't make it abroad. Goodbye Lenin was by no means a glowing endorsement of the former system, but it was among the first work to acknowledge that former East Germans felt nostalgic about some aspects they grew up with and were used to for their whole life. Imagine all cultural touchstones of your past like TV and even food suddenly being gone (not to mention guaranteed work and housing). It's like your past getting wiped out. The Lives of Others adheres to a more traditional way of looking at East Germany as an evil system.

 

[toblerone3]

Is it on iPlayer?

I doubt it, the films never are.

It is on iPlayer!