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Das Leben der anderen: Filmbuch
Der erfolgreiche Dramatiker Georg Dreyman und seine Freundin, eine gefeierte Schauspielerin, sind dat Vorzeigepaar der ostdeutschen Kulturszene - bis die Staatsmacht ihren Alltag einbricht.
Dat Leben der anderen wurde u.a. mit dem Deutschen und dem Europäschen Filmpreis 2006 un dem Oscar 2007 für den besten nichtenglischprachigen Film ausgezeichnet. Das Buch zum Film enthält neben dem Originaldrehbuch Hintergrundtexte u.a. von Sebastian Koch und Ulrich Mühe.
Dat Leben der anderen wurde u.a. mit dem Deutschen und dem Europäschen Filmpreis 2006 un dem Oscar 2007 für den besten nichtenglischprachigen Film ausgezeichnet. Das Buch zum Film enthält neben dem Originaldrehbuch Hintergrundtexte u.a. von Sebastian Koch und Ulrich Mühe.
216 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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About the author
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
4 books6 followersFlorian Henckel von Donnersmarck is a director and writer. He studied at the School of Television and Film in Munich, where he broke the student record for the number of short film awards won at festivals. Upon finishing all of his course work in 2001, he decided to make a feature film instead of another short as a graduation movie. The result - five years later-was The Lives of Others (2006).
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August 23, 2024
خیلی وقت بود که فیلم "زندگی دیگران" تو لیستم بود و سمتش نمیرفتم. ولی همون لحظه که فیلمنامه رو دیدم سریع خریدمش و خوندمش :))))
واقعا هم زیبا بود
کتاب زندگی دیگران اثر فلوریان هنکل فون دونرسمارک رو با ترجمه سحر خوشنام خوندم و پیشنهادش میکنم.
واقعا هم زیبا بود
کتاب زندگی دیگران اثر فلوریان هنکل فون دونرسمارک رو با ترجمه سحر خوشنام خوندم و پیشنهادش میکنم.
November 6, 2015
The Lives of Others (2006)
(الولاء يعني إنعدام التفكير , بل إنعدام الحاجة للتفكير , الولاء هو عدم الوعي)
وإن في يوم أعدت التفكير في مجريات حياتك , وجرائمك الشخصية التي ارتكبتها باسم الولاء لدولة ظالمة , حينها فقط ستجد إنسانيتك الضالة , وتعثر على شخصيتك المفقودة , ستكتشف أدق تفاصيل الحياة الجميلة , المفقودة بالنسبة لك , الفاقدة لأي معنى طويل المدى.
الدول الشمولية القمعية الديكتاتورية الضاغطة على حياة أبناءها , الفاقدة لأدنى معاني العدل, تلك الدول التي توظف مواطنيها لا لشئ إلا لتنفيذ رغبات النظام الحاكم , النظام الظالم , الطامع في السلطة أبدًا , ذلك النظام بأعمدته السادية , التي تتمتع بكل ما تفعله في مواطنيها , وتبلغ السعادة بهم أقصاها حينما ينجحون في أن يفقدوا أحد المواطنين إنسانيتهم , فيجعلونهم يوشون بأحبابهم وأصدقائهم , ويقدمونهم للعذاب.
إن الهدف من الأضطهاد بالنسبة لهم هو الأضطهاد, والهدف من التعذيب هو التعذيب وغاية السلطة هي السلطة , لا يهتمون بشئ ولا يريدون شئ , فالسلطة غاية وصلوا إليها وعليهم الخلود فيها.
ببساطة مطلقة : هو فيلم تدور أحداثه في منتصف الثمانينات في ألمانيا الشرقية , والتي كانت في ذلك الوقت دولة تتخذ من الاشتراكية والشيوعية نظامًا قويما لإدارة البلاد , واتخذوا من الحديد والنار وسيلة للحفاظ على مقومات دولتهم الظالمة .
ولأن الدولة الظالمة تخاف أكثر ما تخاف من وعي سليم يقود الحرية للمواطنين , ولان الكتب والثقافة هي الوسيلة المثلى لتكوين ذلك الوعي المفقود , وسلاح حاد في يدي المثقفين الوطنين , فإن الكتاب بالنسبة للنظام ليس إلا سلعة تُنتج مثلها مثل الأحذية, فقد اهتموا أكثر ما اهتموا باحتكار انتاج ثقافة معينة , ومن يجرؤ على مخالفتهم يظلوا يضغطون عليه إلى أن ينتحر.
ووسط ظلم الدولة يظهر لنا مثال إنساني فائق العظمة , ضابط تحقيق مهمته التنصت على المثقفين , شغوف بتلك المهمة بارع فيها بشدة , ورغم ذلك الشغف , يقف عاجزًا عن التأثر و مخاطبة إنسانيته المفقودة , فيقدم المساعدة لمن يتجسس عليهم وينقذ حياتهم , والإنسانية الحقة : أنه يفعل كل ذلك من غير أن يعرفوا أنه يقدم المساعدة , وأنه أنقذ رقابهم من مقصلة الظلم.
فيلم عظيم من وجهة نظري , الرتم البطئ المحبب لنفسي , التركيز على التفاصيل المبهرة , فيلم بيخليك تاخد نفسك وأنت بتشاهده , وبيعطيك الوقت المناسب لتندمج مع شخصياته, لتنتهي في النهاية منه وأنت حزين , حزين لأن واقع بلدك يشبه واقع الفيلم , والأنكأ : أنك نادرًا ما تقابل مثال إنساني مثل الذي قابلته في هذا الفيلم.
الإخراج والكتابة من أكمل ما يكون , المخرج لم يترك شاردة أو واردة تخص فيلمه إلا وقدمها بصورة مبهرة , وطاقم التمثيل كان من العظمة بمكان.
April 14, 2024
Eine äußerst interessante Lektüreerfahrung ein solches Drehbuch mit dem filmischen Resultat im Hinterkopf zu lesen.
Enthalten sind weiter Auszüge aus dem Drehtagebuch des Schauspielers Sebastian Koch, ein äußerst spannendes und reflektiertes Interview mit Hauptdarsteller Ulrich Mühe und ein Essay von Manfred Wilke, welches sich mit der charakterlichen Wende des Gerd Wieslers befasst.
Enthalten sind weiter Auszüge aus dem Drehtagebuch des Schauspielers Sebastian Koch, ein äußerst spannendes und reflektiertes Interview mit Hauptdarsteller Ulrich Mühe und ein Essay von Manfred Wilke, welches sich mit der charakterlichen Wende des Gerd Wieslers befasst.
June 21, 2021
En vrai j'ai pas fini de lire complètement mais j'ai regardé le film donc too bad 🤷🏽♀️
January 21, 2012
Prima! Ich sah den Film wirklich faszinierend war und die Geschichte war erstaunlich.
April 14, 2023
J’ai tellement apprécié ce livre, et pourtant ça n’était pas gagné d’avance. Les personnages sont si attachants, en particulier Wiesler, et la fin m’a plu, cette dédicace de Dreyman pour son « ange gardien », qui l’a protégé pendant tout se temps…Wieler méritait cela, et je suis vraiment contente de cette fin!!
Cette critique n’est pas forcément super objective, mais je pense que ce livre mérite vraiment d’être lu.
Cette critique n’est pas forcément super objective, mais je pense que ce livre mérite vraiment d’être lu.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 8, 2025
Das Leben der Anderen aka The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck – one of the Top Rated Movies, placed at 58, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language, BAFTA, Cesar, a total of eighty awards
10 out of 10
This is such a magnificent, monumental motion picture that even if the subject is avoided by this cinephile, it is still an exalting, exuberant experience to watch it the second time…since I have lived on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, art dedicated to communism does not appeal, on the contrary, I skip the oeuvres that center on it, DDR was paradise, when compared with the Ceausescu regime, or at least it was thought so.
Let me brag upfront and give you this link http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r... which has the copy of a page from Newsweek, written by their correspondent, who came to Bucharest to cover the fall of the Ceausescu regime, a collapse to which I have brought my own, small contribution, tiny perhaps, but probably the most important act of my life, if we place it in perspective.
It has not transformed my own existence – there is pride connected with the presence among the protesters that faced the retaliation of the repressive regime, on December 21, in the Roman Square, where Andrei Finti was our leader (a hero that has no statue, though he deserved eternal, massive gratitude) but I must confess that I have also had regrets connected with the aftermath, and the lack of ‘compensation’
There have been many fraudsters, hooligans, crooks, scoundrels, fools that have claimed and received the ‘revolutionary certificate’, and with that a series of financial and other privileges and benefits, and though I can understand that it looked so embarrassing, shameful to join this cohort of fakes, and benefit from a heroic act, still, I would have been one of the very few that deserved some recognition.
I had not watched the events unfold on the television screen, as most of the beneficiaries of the revolution (who had special tax [I think it was no tax in fact] status, received property, the right to take over commercial space and so on, reached the heights of economic, social, political life) had done, on the contrary, I had taken to the streets and faced ‘the music’, potential catastrophic consequences, and I have nothing material to show for that, except for that article, and the memories I have of the brave stand
This later aspect could be the most important, and I should be aware that even with much more money, there is the Hedonic Adaptation phenomenon, the lottery winners experiment http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/08/a... and it is not cash that makes us so much happier.
The story line of The Lives of Others is too familiar, and that was one reason I have mentioned that I stay away from the communist subject – indeed, there is more than an adversity for the left wing humans, seeing that we have had the ‘chance’ to live under the left (extreme, but still left) and could see what atrocities it can cause – with one of the nomenclature falling for a woman he likes and trying to have her.
A minister wants the STASI to find dirt on Georg Dreyman (the actor in the role is wondrous Sebastian Koch) a famous writer, who is intimate with the actress Christa –Maria Sieland – the actress is the fabulous Martina Gedeck, admired in another one of the best films in decades http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/06/o... The Baader Meinhof Complex - Christa Maria is the ‘trophy’ that the apparatchik wants to get in his paws, and for that he is willing to use all his power, abusing and if need be taking the STASI into the home of the author, to get the proves of illegal activity
Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler – portrayed by excellent Ulrich Muhe - is placed in charge of the spying operation, with microphones placed around the home, agents listening in and making reports on the sexual acts, conversations, with the goal of finding the proof of ‘activities against the state’, but without success for quite some time, for people were aware of the continuous spying, the huge network of collaborators…
Albert Jerska, a friend of Georg Dreyman, had been blacklisted and since that meant the end of his productive life, losing the sense of meaning, the artist committed suicide, DDR being one of the countries with the highest rate – was it second only to Hungary – and the regime had decided to stop publishing the numbers…Dreyman and his friends decide to send a letter to Der Spiegel, in the West, taking huge risks.
This was a very dangerous stand, it would be the equivalent of treason, and the punishment would be decades in prison, maybe life, and when they prepare the ground, they try to test and see if the STASI listens in what happens in the home of the writer, pretending they plan an escape with the car, at a specific border point – with the agents spying, they were sure that the car would be stopped, only it is not.
It is because Gerd Wiesler is becoming a ‘turncoat’, he moves to the right side, and instead of reporting to his loathsome superiors, he fabricates reports that have no mention of the dissidents and their plans (spoiler alert) with the result that the article that is attacking the policies of the communist state is smuggled and published, with the secret police trying to find another weak spot, using the drug addiction of the actress against her
There are also a couple of jokes, we had versions of those in the countries of the Eastern Block, with the leader of the local commies talking to…the sun – with Honecher, the sun salutes, until the end of the day, when he says kiss my ass, I am in the West now, while our local version had Ceausescu saluted by what he thought is the sun, playing to his vanity and accepted because of his immense stupidity, until he gets the answer from the ‘sun’: good day comrade Ceausescu, my name is Manu, lieutenant Sun has been replaced…
10 out of 10
This is such a magnificent, monumental motion picture that even if the subject is avoided by this cinephile, it is still an exalting, exuberant experience to watch it the second time…since I have lived on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, art dedicated to communism does not appeal, on the contrary, I skip the oeuvres that center on it, DDR was paradise, when compared with the Ceausescu regime, or at least it was thought so.
Let me brag upfront and give you this link http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r... which has the copy of a page from Newsweek, written by their correspondent, who came to Bucharest to cover the fall of the Ceausescu regime, a collapse to which I have brought my own, small contribution, tiny perhaps, but probably the most important act of my life, if we place it in perspective.
It has not transformed my own existence – there is pride connected with the presence among the protesters that faced the retaliation of the repressive regime, on December 21, in the Roman Square, where Andrei Finti was our leader (a hero that has no statue, though he deserved eternal, massive gratitude) but I must confess that I have also had regrets connected with the aftermath, and the lack of ‘compensation’
There have been many fraudsters, hooligans, crooks, scoundrels, fools that have claimed and received the ‘revolutionary certificate’, and with that a series of financial and other privileges and benefits, and though I can understand that it looked so embarrassing, shameful to join this cohort of fakes, and benefit from a heroic act, still, I would have been one of the very few that deserved some recognition.
I had not watched the events unfold on the television screen, as most of the beneficiaries of the revolution (who had special tax [I think it was no tax in fact] status, received property, the right to take over commercial space and so on, reached the heights of economic, social, political life) had done, on the contrary, I had taken to the streets and faced ‘the music’, potential catastrophic consequences, and I have nothing material to show for that, except for that article, and the memories I have of the brave stand
This later aspect could be the most important, and I should be aware that even with much more money, there is the Hedonic Adaptation phenomenon, the lottery winners experiment http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/08/a... and it is not cash that makes us so much happier.
The story line of The Lives of Others is too familiar, and that was one reason I have mentioned that I stay away from the communist subject – indeed, there is more than an adversity for the left wing humans, seeing that we have had the ‘chance’ to live under the left (extreme, but still left) and could see what atrocities it can cause – with one of the nomenclature falling for a woman he likes and trying to have her.
A minister wants the STASI to find dirt on Georg Dreyman (the actor in the role is wondrous Sebastian Koch) a famous writer, who is intimate with the actress Christa –Maria Sieland – the actress is the fabulous Martina Gedeck, admired in another one of the best films in decades http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/06/o... The Baader Meinhof Complex - Christa Maria is the ‘trophy’ that the apparatchik wants to get in his paws, and for that he is willing to use all his power, abusing and if need be taking the STASI into the home of the author, to get the proves of illegal activity
Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler – portrayed by excellent Ulrich Muhe - is placed in charge of the spying operation, with microphones placed around the home, agents listening in and making reports on the sexual acts, conversations, with the goal of finding the proof of ‘activities against the state’, but without success for quite some time, for people were aware of the continuous spying, the huge network of collaborators…
Albert Jerska, a friend of Georg Dreyman, had been blacklisted and since that meant the end of his productive life, losing the sense of meaning, the artist committed suicide, DDR being one of the countries with the highest rate – was it second only to Hungary – and the regime had decided to stop publishing the numbers…Dreyman and his friends decide to send a letter to Der Spiegel, in the West, taking huge risks.
This was a very dangerous stand, it would be the equivalent of treason, and the punishment would be decades in prison, maybe life, and when they prepare the ground, they try to test and see if the STASI listens in what happens in the home of the writer, pretending they plan an escape with the car, at a specific border point – with the agents spying, they were sure that the car would be stopped, only it is not.
It is because Gerd Wiesler is becoming a ‘turncoat’, he moves to the right side, and instead of reporting to his loathsome superiors, he fabricates reports that have no mention of the dissidents and their plans (spoiler alert) with the result that the article that is attacking the policies of the communist state is smuggled and published, with the secret police trying to find another weak spot, using the drug addiction of the actress against her
There are also a couple of jokes, we had versions of those in the countries of the Eastern Block, with the leader of the local commies talking to…the sun – with Honecher, the sun salutes, until the end of the day, when he says kiss my ass, I am in the West now, while our local version had Ceausescu saluted by what he thought is the sun, playing to his vanity and accepted because of his immense stupidity, until he gets the answer from the ‘sun’: good day comrade Ceausescu, my name is Manu, lieutenant Sun has been replaced…
January 12, 2025
I loved studying about the Stasi and East, West Germany. In my last year of school I finally learned something more interesting than Nazi-Germany. However, equally important history WW I and WW II and then Germany's history nimmt an Fahrt an!
East, West Germany, Stasi!
Gets interesting, relevant. Relevant in times of "evil" social media. x, did I mention x.
East, West Germany, Stasi!
Gets interesting, relevant. Relevant in times of "evil" social media. x, did I mention x.
April 10, 2021
Parfait !
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December 29, 2021google translate our lord our saviour I say thank you
the book's not bad either :-) first half boring though
the book's not bad either :-) first half boring though
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January 21, 2025en allemand
December 19, 2022
I picked this up at Hohenschönhausen, the former East German prison, which is featured in this screenplay (and film). It was a strange experience to read this after having toured the prison because it all felt much more real.
This was also the original screenplay from before the film was made so it was interesting to read it in its entirety, and then watch the film to see which scenes had been cut. I highly recommend it because it's terrifying yet engaging, but also a real part of history that existed not so long ago. Overall, it was a great piece of work that I won't forget about for a long time.
This was also the original screenplay from before the film was made so it was interesting to read it in its entirety, and then watch the film to see which scenes had been cut. I highly recommend it because it's terrifying yet engaging, but also a real part of history that existed not so long ago. Overall, it was a great piece of work that I won't forget about for a long time.
May 16, 2023
Superb story about a Stasi agent who becomes involved in the lives of a playwright, his friends, and his lover, who have protested against the East German regime. As he observes them, he discovers the cost of authoritarianism on human dignity, loyalty, and love and decides to take action. A haunting film/screenplay about the cost of following the path of truth and freedom.
June 3, 2015
I had to read this for german course and I found it rather boring... German History books are just not my thing I suppose.
June 10, 2015
Prime
July 17, 2016
How this story moves me...
And this volume has wonderful essays that follow the screenplay; especially interesting is the interview with Ulrich Mühe.
And this volume has wonderful essays that follow the screenplay; especially interesting is the interview with Ulrich Mühe.
April 10, 2021
Super !
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