Summary: Description: The Lives of the Others (Das Leben Der Anderen) is a 2006 German Language Movie set in the 1980’s. This movie shows the surveillance culture of the East German Stasi and how people lived under this oppressive regime. We are joined today by Travis Dow. This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation. You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places: http://atozhistorypage.com/ email: steve@atozhistorypage.com http://rss.acast.com/beyondthebigscreen Agora: www.agorapodcastnetwork.com https://www.patreon.com/papacy On Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/Beyondthebigscreen/ https://twitter.com/BigScreenBeyond Learn More About our Guest: Travis Dow of The History of German, The History of Alchemy, The Secret Cabinet, Africa: A History, Americana Fur Euch, Bohemican and more! www.podcastnik.com Music Provided by: "Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Today we're talking about the movie The Lives of the others from 2006. It's a German movie and it's German name as Das Leben Der Anderen and we are joined by Travis Dow. Travis is really the podcasting man of all seasons. He is the host of countless podcasts including but not limited to the history of Germany. The history of alchemy Bohemican can the history of Africa and the German language podcast Americana for Euch is how you might say no. That's right yeah. And did I catch all of them Travis. I think so. Who's counting. Yeah. Travis thank you so much for being on. I thought this movie is perfect for you. I really felt like even watching this movie I was like Travis is the perfect guy for this movie yeah. And this is a movie that gripped me like I. Yeah definitely. Very interesting movie and I grew up in Germany and lived in Prague. And this movie was kind of like you know I and I moved to Prague for the curiosity of like living on the other side you know the life of the others to see what that was like and how the city is changing and all that. And you know what are they doing now. Czech Republic a new country and this type of movie just feeds into my curiosity of you know how it was and I eat it up for sure. Yeah. This movie is was released in 2009 but it's set in the East Germany of the mid 1980s really at the tail end of the Cold War just a few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall and as we usually do we're going to use this movie as a way to get into a deeper conversation about East Germany and the Eastern Bloc countries as well as how countries how these countries progressed after the fall of the Berlin Wall which was a critical element of this movie The Lives of the others. To some production details about the movie the director and writer was Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. It's a German language film but it is available with English subtitles. It got a really high. Rotten Tomatoes of 93 percent. And I met a critic of 89 percent which I think is the highest of any movie we've done so far. It was filmed throughout Berlin which we will talk quite a bit about it as a runtime of 137 minutes. It was the 2006 winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film and it won just a pile of German and European awards. On top of that the movie does have a very high powered German cast but most of these actors I don't think wouldn't be Redah readily recognizable for most American audiences or non German audiences. Oelrich Umuahia. Jeez these some of these names are going to stretch my rudiment after all. Well Mirah. Yeah he plays Captain Gerd Wiesler and he's a Stasi officer. He's kind of a disaffected and burdened by the work that he has to do for the Stasi and her was actually an East German and there was another actor Sebastian called. And he plays an actor and Gnome maker slash stage writer named Gerg dry man and he is actually of a famous German actor. Calk he might be rec...
