“The Lives of Others” Analysis and Review: Donnersmark’s Political Thriller and Spy Film “The Lives of Others” Highlights How an Authoritarian Country Denies the Basic Civil and Human Rights of Its Innocent Citizens
Florian Henckel Von Donnersmark’s political thriller spy film The Lives of Others vividly shows how citizens suffer when a country does not believe them and doubts their activities. Their basic civil and human rights are violated through state-sponsored mechanisms. All the time, ordinary citizens are kept and monitored under strict surveillance without their knowledge and …