logo

iView Author:
Azad
( Bangalore, India)

Email:
azad.ksingh [at] gmail [dot] com

Lives of Other - Sonata Of a Good Man

If I were a director, and someone came up with a story like “The Lives of Others” to me, my first reaction would have been to fill the film with some very simplistic yet powerful dialogues. “A film is as good as it dialogues”. This is the myth that I had been nurturing about great cinema for years.. But for the first time in my life, my belief has been challenged and how!!!

Lives of Others is set in the last few years of East Germany, before the Berlin wall was brought down. East Germany, was then ruled by a Socialist regime, that believed in exercising control over each and every aspect of human life of its citizens, more so of the artists. Artists, as a …