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“... Find. But there is another title that provides a much better clue to the moral preoccupations of Florian Henckelvon Donnersmarck’s first full-length film, The Lives of Others: Brecht’s Good Person of Szechuan. It was Brecht, too, who in response to the distribution of a leaflet announcing (in 1953) that the ...”

“... were victims of the regime. But her world was not the one imagined by the West German filmmaker Florian Henckelvon Donnersmarck in The Lives of Others. Her relationship with the power of the regime was always – and perhaps this was true for many people in the GDR – oblique, ironic. The state, she says, had ...”