One character in this film gets demoted to a job where he steams open envelopes, and works with a man who once told him a joke about a politician. That character, who sometimes goes by the name HGW XX/7, is the dedicatee of t
One character in this film gets demoted to a job where he steams open envelopes, and works with a man who once told him a joke about a politician. That character, who sometimes goes by the name HGW XX/7, is the dedicatee of the novel Sonata for a Good Man, which is also the title of a piece of music that the director Albert Jerska hears before he commits suicide. At the end of this film, a search for a very small typewriter leads the mistress of Minister Hempf to commit suicide by jumping in front of a truck. That mistress, the actress Christa-Maria Sieland, had just informed Gerd Weisler that her boyfriend, the playwright Georg Dreyman, had written a controversial political article about suicide in Der Spiegel. FTP, identify this winner of the 2007 best foreign film Oscar, concerning the surveillance of dissidents by the Stasi in communist East Germany.
One character in this film gets demoted to a job where he steams open envelopes, and works with a man who once told him a joke about a politician.
The {Lives of Others} (Das {Leben der Anderen})