Review by searchanddestroy-1

This is a so accurate document, so detailed about what the events exactly were in those times, awful period for Germany, before the fall of the wall. You can think about another film speaking of this very same era: DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN, made in 2006. Not the very same story but as interesting for those who did not know this "socialist paradise". Not destined to wide audiences, so shame, because the production design, acting, directing are worth discovering. All the methods used by the German Democratic Republic authorities to spy, tail, and then nail people are here exposed with, I repeat, great accuracy. If you watch it closely, it may be a bit disturbing. All long this film, and especially in the second part, I thought of L'AVEU, from director Costa Gavras, starring Yves Montand.