Set in 1980s East Berlin, this film provides an exquisitely nuanced portrait of life under the watchful eye of the state police as a high-profile couple is bugged. When a successful playwright and his actress companion become subjects of the Stasi's secret surveillance program, their friends, family and even those doing the watching find their lives changed too. Despite the movie being sort of interesting, it was also a little too slow. I finally gave up after fifty minutes.
Set in 1980s East Berlin, this film provides an exquisitely nuanced portrait of life under the watchful eye of the state police as a high-profile couple is bugged. When a successful playwright and his actress companion become subjects of the Stasi's secret surveillance program, their friends, family and even those doing the watching find their lives changed too. Despite the movie being sort of interesting, it was also a little too slow. I finally gave up after fifty minutes.
