The film is set in East Germany during the ominous Orwellian year 1984, when as many as one in 50 East Germans was some kind of informant for the country’s state security (Stasi) organization. Stasi’s ...
“Lives” is a humane political thriller|The numbers were daunting. They remain haunting. During the period in which the Oscar-nominated “The Lives of Others” is set, the East German secret police – the ...