I cried watching this.....The girlfriend sold him while the HGW in Stasi saved him....He believes in Communism while being personal honest and intellectual and writing dissent articles. It's about the inner struggles of human souls.... the evil and good existed within someone.

@TheSkootertrash I support abortion, including retro active abortions for fuckheads like you. I eat meat and love it. Nancy Pelosi is a corporate whore, like all the other corporate whores that saturate Congress. Obama's also a corporate whore, and a sell out. There is nothing wrong with homosexuality, unless you're a fucking brain dead conservative Christian. Fuck you.

No, liberals are the fucking idiots, and from your answer, it's not hard to deduce that your are one of those liberal idiots. Enjoying your phony global warming? Do you support abortion, and at the same time refuse to eat animals because it's cruel? Are you admitting that you actually think Nancy Pelosi is intelligent? Did your boy Obama ever bail you out? I bet you even think homosexuality is a lifestyle, and not the behavioral disorder it is. You fucking liberals make me so fucking sick!

@TheSkootertrash Are you are fucking idiot.

A very good and realistic movie!

If you haven't see this movie already, watch it right away. Fantastic movie 10/10

in my child days.the stasi want take me and my brother away from my mom.only because my mom want life free in west germany.sorry for my bad english.

watch?v= KrZ078boSlM on youtube for the full movie with english subs, please check yourself before rating me down :)

Best German movie I've ever seen!!! I like the way it's made... maybe because I grow up with Kommissar REX & Cobra 11 :) I think it's a big success in the ex.comunist countries like ROMANIA (witch I'm from), Hungary, Poland, Czech & Slovak Republic, etc. because those countries sufferd much more than any other country... because of COMUNISM.

This was just named one of the top 5 films of the last 30 years by the London Film Critics Circle. Richly deserved

One of the best films I've seen in my 57 years. Everything about it was brilliant - visuals, writing, story, acting. Simply amazing ...

The performances in this film are amazing, but Ulrich Mühe (RIP) who plays Stasi Capt. Wiesler is on another level. The whole story unfolds in his face and eyes, incredible film.

I saw this last week. Enjoyed it so much, I added it to my Top 10 of all time list. I'm sad I didn't get to see it in the theater.I know there are some people who are really distracted by having to read subtitles - but do make the effort for this one! It's the kind of movie you wish Hollywood knew how to make. It got the best foreign film Oscar, but it really should have won every major category (best picture, directing, screenplay, all acting categories, score, art direction)

Are you out of your MIND??? It's the Democrats that are funding hundreds of thousands of new law enforcement officers, billions in electronic surveillance equipment, urban assault vehicles, high tech crowd control devices etc. Just google Biden-crime. It's all right there. Obviously you were one of the sucker lefties that voted for "change", and didn't realize you bought the newest happy meal fad in feel good nationalism police state socialism. Yep, it's true. There's one born every minute.

amazing movie.-----10 ------

REALLY REALLY good movie.

I found this to be an excellent movie. The title had a double meaning for me: the way of life of the "Other" Germany, and also the way of life of the central character, who grew to wish he had the life of another person, because he had none of his own.

Terrifying film! The US has tens of thousands of pages of law thanks to Bush-Cheney which allows the Department of Homeland Security here to LEGALLY do what the Stasi did de facto. The PATRIOT Act needs to be removed from the U.S. Code.

Amazing movie....incredible to think it was not that long ago...spying...everything...very intense and gripping. So very sad the Ulrich Muhe died so young. He's awesome!

Definitely in my top 3