The Lives of Others Subtitles

7/27/2019 The Lives of Others Subtitles

1/102

1

00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,001

24 fps

2

00:00:38,025 --> 00:00:39,483TEMPORARY DETENTION CENTER

MINISTRY FOR STATE SECURITY

3

00:00:39,567 --> 00:00:41,358

Stand still. Eyes to the floor.

4

00:00:46,567 --> 00:00:47,483

Walk on.

5

00:00:47,692 --> 00:00:52,358

TEMPORARY DETENTION CENTER

MINISTRY FOR STATE SECURITY

6

00:00:52,525 --> 00:00:54,400

Address him as 'Captain!'

7

00:00:56,817 --> 00:00:58,358Enter.

8

00:01:00,358 --> 00:01:01,817

Sit down.

9

00:01:04,942 --> 00:01:07,692

Hands under your thighs, palms down.

1000:01:13,817 --> 00:01:15,692

What do you have to tell us?

11

00:01:16,525 --> 00:01:18,483

I've done nothing.

12

00:01:20,192 --> 00:01:21,233

I know nothing.

13


2/102

00:01:21,775 --> 00:01:24,275

You've done nothing, know nothing...

14

00:01:25,442 --> 00:01:29,483

You think we imprison people on a whim?

15

00:01:29,608 --> 00:01:31,442

No...

16

00:01:31,692 --> 00:01:34,025

If you think our humanistic system

capable of such a thing,

1700:01:34,150 --> 00:01:37,317

that alone would justify your arrest.

18

00:01:39,692 --> 00:01:43,733

We'd like to jog your memory, prisoner no. 227.

19

00:01:44,525 --> 00:01:46,400

On September 28th, Dieter Pirmasens,

20

00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:50,108

your friend and neighbor, fled to the West.

21

00:01:50,442 --> 00:01:53,025

We believe that he had help.

22

00:01:53,192 --> 00:01:54,608

I know nothing.

23

00:01:55,317 --> 00:01:57,733

He didn't even tell me he wanted to leave.

24

00:01:57,858 --> 00:01:59,775

I first heard about it at work.

25

00:02:00,316 --> 00:02:04,483

Please recount what you did on September 28th.


3/102

26

00:02:05,025 --> 00:02:08,775

- It's in my statement.

- Tell me again.

27

00:02:09,858 --> 00:02:13,275

I was at Treptow Park memorial with my children.

28

00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,275

Where I met my old friend Max Kirchner.

29

00:02:16,441 --> 00:02:20,316

We went to his placeand listened to music until late.

30

00:02:21,066 --> 00:02:24,275

He has a telephone,

you can call him to confirm this.

31

00:02:24,691 --> 00:02:26,691

I can give you the number.

32

00:02:28,233 --> 00:02:30,608

The enemies of our state are arrogant.

33

00:02:30,858 --> 00:02:32,608

Remember that.

34

00:02:32,691 --> 00:02:36,400

It takes patience. About 40 hours worth.

(STASI COLLEGE, POTSDAM-EICHE)

35

00:02:36,941 --> 00:02:38,983

Fast forward...

36

00:02:40,733 --> 00:02:42,483

I want to sleep.

37

00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:46,941


4/102


5/102

00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:41,775

He knows he's there for a reason.

50

00:03:41,900 --> 00:03:45,150

The best way to establish guilt or innocence

51

00:03:45,233 --> 00:03:48,025

is non-stop interrogation.

52

00:03:48,150 --> 00:03:50,608

...school friend Max Kirchner.

53

00:03:51,733 --> 00:03:54,025We went to his place...

54

00:03:55,733 --> 00:03:59,358

and listened to music until late.

55

00:04:01,275 --> 00:04:06,358

He has a telephone,

you can call him to confirm this.

56

00:04:08,650 --> 00:04:11,400

Do you notice anything about his statement?

57

00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:14,483

It's the same as at the beginning.

58

00:04:14,983 --> 00:04:18,566

Exactly the same. Word for word.

59

00:04:18,941 --> 00:04:21,941

People who tell the truth

can re-formulate things,

60

00:04:22,066 --> 00:04:23,108

and they do.

61

00:04:24,066 --> 00:04:27,150


6/102

A liar has prepared sentences,

which he falls back on

62

00:04:27,150 --> 00:04:29,691

when under pressure.

63

00:04:30,525 --> 00:04:33,066

227 is lying.

64

00:04:33,191 --> 00:04:38,233

We have two important indicators,

and can increase the intensity.

6500:04:38,858 --> 00:04:41,608

If you don't give names,

66

00:04:41,650 --> 00:04:43,858

We'll have to arrest your wife.

67

00:04:45,775 --> 00:04:48,816

Jan and Nadja

will be put into state care.

68

00:04:49,066 --> 00:04:50,608

Is that what you want?

69

00:04:56,483 --> 00:04:58,900

Who was the person who helped him flee?

70

00:05:00,566 --> 00:05:02,733

- Glaske...

- Again! Speak clearly!

71

00:05:04,858 --> 00:05:08,025

Glaske... Werner Glaske.

72

00:05:08,858 --> 00:05:11,191

Werner... Glaske.

73


7/102

00:05:14,316 --> 00:05:16,358

Quiet!

74

00:05:17,691 --> 00:05:18,983

Quiet!

75

00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:20,775

Listen!

76

00:05:25,941 --> 00:05:27,650

Does anyone know what that is?

77

00:05:34,316 --> 00:05:37,233It's the odor sample for the dogs.

78

00:05:37,358 --> 00:05:42,191

It must be collected at every

interrogation. Never forget it!

79

00:05:47,233 --> 00:05:50,983

Your subjects are enemies of Socialism.

80

00:05:51,524 --> 00:05:54,858

Never forget that! Goodbye.

81

00:05:59,774 --> 00:06:01,733

That was good, really good.

82

00:06:05,316 --> 00:06:06,399

You remember

83

00:06:06,691 --> 00:06:10,858

how we sat there 20 years ago?

84

00:06:13,399 --> 00:06:15,899

They've offered me a professorship.

85

00:06:18,191 --> 00:06:23,024

Life's not about good grades, though


8/102

mine weren't that bad, thanks to you.

86

00:06:23,649 --> 00:06:24,983

So what's up?

87

00:06:25,358 --> 00:06:28,108

Why do you always think I'm scheming?

88

00:06:28,441 --> 00:06:31,483

- I wanted to invite you to the theater.

- The theater?

89

00:06:32,274 --> 00:06:35,233I heard that Minister Hempf is going.

90

00:06:35,858 --> 00:06:39,274

As head of the Culture Department,

I should show my face.

91

00:06:39,899 --> 00:06:43,233

It starts at 7 p.m. We should get going.

92

00:06:43,649 --> 00:06:49,274

THE LIVES OF OTHERS

93

00:06:56,483 --> 00:06:59,608

Minister Hempf at one o'clock.

94

00:07:00,441 --> 00:07:04,566

He used to be in State Security, you know.

95

00:07:04,941 --> 00:07:07,733

He really cleaned up the theater scene.

96

00:07:15,316 --> 00:07:18,066

Georg Dreyman, the writer.

97

00:07:18,608 --> 00:07:22,983

An arrogant type, the kind I warn my students about.


9/102

98

00:07:23,108 --> 00:07:24,649

But he's loyal.

9900:07:25,483 --> 00:07:28,149

If they were all like him, I'd be out of a job.

100

00:07:28,233 --> 00:07:32,316

He's our only non-subversive writer

who is also read in the West.

101

00:07:33,524 --> 00:07:36,316

He thinks the GDR is the greatest country on earth.

102

00:07:39,733 --> 00:07:41,358

It starts.

103

00:07:54,649 --> 00:07:57,774

What's wrong, my child? A new vision?

104

00:07:57,816 --> 00:07:59,566Speak, Marta! Speak!

105

00:07:59,858 --> 00:08:00,899

Your Arthur...

106

00:08:03,149 --> 00:08:04,358

is dead.

107

00:08:04,858 --> 00:08:08,816

Arthur? Can't you be wrong, just this once?

108

00:08:08,983 --> 00:08:10,899

No, sister. Believe me.

109

00:08:13,066 --> 00:08:15,608

He fell to his death.

110


10/102

00:08:18,483 --> 00:08:21,733

Crushed by the mighty wheel.

111

00:08:22,733 --> 00:08:24,858

I see it,

112

00:08:26,566 --> 00:08:28,566

though I'd rather see any other horror.

113

00:08:32,066 --> 00:08:34,899

Why am I not spared these visions?

114

00:08:38,191 --> 00:08:41,483Elena! Go home... and mourn.

I'll finish your shift.

115

00:09:23,399 --> 00:09:27,482

Did you like it? Dreyman's good, eh?

116

00:09:27,649 --> 00:09:29,441

I'd have him monitored.

117

00:09:29,566 --> 00:09:33,732

Monitored? All that teaching

is ruining your instincts.

118

00:09:33,816 --> 00:09:36,024

I could oversee it myself.

119

00:09:36,066 --> 00:09:39,024

He's clean, I tell you. Even Hempf likes him.

120

00:09:39,149 --> 00:09:41,732

We'd be shooting ourselves in the foot.

121

00:09:42,399 --> 00:09:44,066

I'm going down.

122

00:09:47,899 --> 00:09:49,566


11/102

"Faces of Love"

123

00:10:14,482 --> 00:10:16,607

I hear a lot about your work.

124

00:10:16,691 --> 00:10:18,816

They say culture's in good hands.

125

00:10:19,857 --> 00:10:21,691

Your name is mentioned in Party circles.

126

00:10:21,774 --> 00:10:24,232

We're the Party's 'shield and sword'.

127

00:10:24,357 --> 00:10:26,399

I'm aware of that at all times.

128

00:10:31,566 --> 00:10:33,232

What do you make of him?

129

00:10:36,274 --> 00:10:37,649Of Georg Dreyman?

130

00:10:42,149 --> 00:10:43,941

Maybe...

131

00:10:44,816 --> 00:10:46,399

Maybe what?

132

00:10:49,441 --> 00:10:53,566

Maybe he's not as clean as he seems.

133

00:10:55,274 --> 00:10:59,399

Grubitz! That's why you and I are on top.

134

00:11:00,316 --> 00:11:02,316

Your average Stasi chump would have said,

135


12/102

00:11:02,399 --> 00:11:05,524

"One of our best! So loyal!" etc.

136

00:11:05,649 --> 00:11:07,649

But we can see more.

137

00:11:08,482 --> 00:11:10,524

You're heading to the very top, Grubitz.

138

00:11:13,524 --> 00:11:15,149

There's something fishy about him.

139

00:11:15,316 --> 00:11:18,482I can feel it in my gut.

140

00:11:22,732 --> 00:11:25,107

Dreyman's having a party next week.

141

00:11:25,149 --> 00:11:28,357

Some dubious types are going, Hauser and that rabble.

14200:11:28,441 --> 00:11:30,399

Try to wire the place discreetly by then.

143

00:11:30,524 --> 00:11:33,774

Measures A and B.

144

00:11:34,149 --> 00:11:36,149

Only in his rooms. Nothing conspicuous.

145

00:11:36,232 --> 00:11:38,691

He has powerful friends.

146

00:11:38,816 --> 00:11:40,524

No one is to know about this

147

00:11:40,607 --> 00:11:43,816

until we've found something.


13/102

148

00:11:47,316 --> 00:11:49,774

But if you get something on him,

149

00:11:49,857 --> 00:11:52,732you'll have a good friend in the Central Committee.

150

00:11:52,857 --> 00:11:54,732

You understand what I'm saying?

151

00:11:57,732 --> 00:12:00,482

Have a nice evening, Comrade Minister.

15200:12:21,732 --> 00:12:23,857

Why is he staring at us?

153

00:12:27,899 --> 00:12:30,065

What's he doing here, anyway?

154

00:12:30,607 --> 00:12:33,190

I think he's got a crush on you.

155

00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:54,315

I can't let the evening pass

without raising a toast to our artists.

156

00:12:54,940 --> 00:12:58,524

A great Socialist,

I can't recall who it was, once said:

157

00:12:58,607 --> 00:13:02,440

Writers are engineers of the soul.

158

00:13:02,565 --> 00:13:03,940

So Georg Dreyman is

159

00:13:03,982 --> 00:13:06,524

one of our country's greatest engineers.

160


14/102

00:13:10,065 --> 00:13:13,774

- What charming bed-fellows you have.

- Paul!

161

00:13:15,565 --> 00:13:17,607And to Christa-Maria Sieland,

162

00:13:17,607 --> 00:13:20,482

the loveliest pearl of the GDR.

163

00:13:20,565 --> 00:13:22,815

I believe that

nobody contradict my opinion.

164

00:13:22,982 --> 00:13:25,524

Let's raise our glasses

165

00:13:25,565 --> 00:13:29,690

to Christa-Maria Sieland:

Three cheers to her.

166

00:13:34,065 --> 00:13:36,357Someone like him doesn't even deserve

to address you.

167

00:13:36,482 --> 00:13:38,982

Stay with me!

168

00:13:41,107 --> 00:13:42,940

And now something for the soul...

169

00:13:44,649 --> 00:13:46,440

May I?

170

00:13:51,690 --> 00:13:55,357

- How did you like my speech?

- Many thanks.

171

00:13:55,857 --> 00:13:57,899

I liked your play too.


15/102

172

00:13:58,482 --> 00:13:59,565

Really, it was good.

17300:13:59,940 --> 00:14:03,565

"Engineers of the soul."

That was a Stalin quote.

174

00:14:03,649 --> 00:14:04,857

Really?

175

00:14:06,149 --> 00:14:09,315

I, too, like to provoke, Mr. Hauser.

176

00:14:09,899 --> 00:14:13,065

But unlike you, I know how far I can go.

177

00:14:14,190 --> 00:14:17,065

I'm more like our dear Dreyman.

178

00:14:17,149 --> 00:14:19,399He knows that the Party needs artists,

179

00:14:19,524 --> 00:14:21,440

but that artists need the Party even more.

180

00:14:22,024 --> 00:14:24,940

If you're going to talk politics,

I'll find another dance partner.

181

00:14:25,024 --> 00:14:27,857

- I'm willing.

- Too late!

182

00:14:32,649 --> 00:14:35,982

I follow our theater with interest.

183

00:14:36,024 --> 00:14:38,065

It used to be theater people...


16/102

184

00:14:38,149 --> 00:14:40,107

- Paul!

- It's okay,

185

00:14:40,149 --> 00:14:42,065

I've known Mr. Hauser for years.

186

00:14:42,190 --> 00:14:43,315

Comrade Schwalber!

187

00:14:43,940 --> 00:14:46,440

You did a good job tonight too.

188

00:14:46,857 --> 00:14:49,565

Dreyman, I'm glad you're working

with such directors.

189

00:14:50,607 --> 00:14:52,482

It wasn't always so.

19000:14:54,274 --> 00:14:56,024

You're referring to Jerska?

191

00:14:58,399 --> 00:15:01,315

I think you judged him too harshly.

192

00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:06,190

Sure, he went too far in what he said.

Without a doubt.

193

00:15:07,274 --> 00:15:08,149

But

194

00:15:08,815 --> 00:15:13,315

put yourself in his shoes for a moment.

You, as a man of honor.

195

00:15:14,190 --> 00:15:17,274


17/102

He can't remove his name

from that statement.

196

00:15:19,774 --> 00:15:23,774

He could work for any theater in the West.

197

00:15:23,857 --> 00:15:25,607

But he wants to stay here.

198

00:15:25,690 --> 00:15:29,940

Because he believes in Socialism

and in this country.

19900:15:30,232 --> 00:15:33,732

- His black-listing is...

- Black-listing?

200

00:15:34,274 --> 00:15:39,940

We don't do that here!

You should choose your words more carefully.

201

00:15:45,274 --> 00:15:47,982Comrade Hempf, just between us:

202

00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:51,399

My plays are not strong enough

203

00:15:51,482 --> 00:15:53,024

to survive Schwalber's direction.

204

00:15:53,107 --> 00:15:54,857

I need Jerska,

205

00:15:55,815 --> 00:15:57,899

and I think you judged him too harshly.

206

00:15:57,940 --> 00:15:59,690

Well, I don't.

207


18/102

00:15:59,773 --> 00:16:02,190

But that's what we all love about your plays.

208

00:16:02,273 --> 00:16:04,440

Your love for mankind...

209

00:16:04,565 --> 00:16:06,357

your belief that people can change.

210

00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:08,315

Dreyman,

211

00:16:09,690 --> 00:16:12,482no matter how often you say it in your plays,

212

00:16:13,398 --> 00:16:15,357

people do not change!

213

00:16:18,898 --> 00:16:20,607

How is he, by the way?

21400:16:21,815 --> 00:16:24,065

He hopes that his black- ...

215

00:16:24,940 --> 00:16:26,940

that he can work again soon.

216

00:16:33,565 --> 00:16:35,273

Is he right in hoping?

217

00:16:35,315 --> 00:16:39,523

Of course he is.

As long as he lives, and even longer.

218

00:16:39,648 --> 00:16:43,398

Because as you know, Dreyman,

hope always dies last.

219

00:16:58,565 --> 00:17:01,565


19/102

The team will be ready

to wire the place as of tomorrow.

220

00:17:02,690 --> 00:17:05,107

It needs to be finished by Thursday.

221

00:17:05,232 --> 00:17:06,565

You should plan everything carefully.

222

00:17:06,690 --> 00:17:07,815

Think you can do it?

223

00:17:11,815 --> 00:17:12,815Good night.

224

00:18:46,982 --> 00:18:48,565

I'll get in trouble if I don't go.

225

00:18:48,607 --> 00:18:50,148

- With who?

- My girlfriend.

226

00:20:48,356 --> 00:20:49,898

Twenty minutes.

227

00:22:47,356 --> 00:22:47,981

Yes?

228

00:22:48,106 --> 00:22:51,231

Frau Meineke... One word of this to anyone,

229

00:22:51,356 --> 00:22:54,356

and Masha loses her spot at the university.

230

00:22:57,856 --> 00:22:59,773

Is that understood?

231

00:23:00,689 --> 00:23:01,773

Yes.


20/102

232

00:23:04,773 --> 00:23:08,648

Send Mrs. Meineke a gift for her cooperation.

23300:23:20,814 --> 00:23:22,814

It must be Thursday again.

234

00:23:23,731 --> 00:23:27,689

Time passes so quickly...

Perhaps that's a good thing.

235

00:23:45,898 --> 00:23:48,523

- How are you?- Not bad.

236

00:23:50,064 --> 00:23:52,189

It's not always this noisy.

237

00:23:52,856 --> 00:23:54,564

Only on Thursdays, I know.

23800:23:55,814 --> 00:23:57,189

Yes.

239

00:24:01,231 --> 00:24:02,856

We missed you at the premiere.

240

00:24:03,648 --> 00:24:05,606

Did Schwalber do a good job?

241

00:24:08,273 --> 00:24:10,398

His good bits were stolen from you.

242

00:24:10,898 --> 00:24:12,898

That keeps my ideas alive.

243

00:24:21,398 --> 00:24:22,606

Don't bear it.


21/102

244

00:24:22,731 --> 00:24:25,106

I can't bear those fat, dressed-up people

245

00:24:25,189 --> 00:24:27,148at premieres anymore.

246

00:24:29,981 --> 00:24:33,273

Doesn't sound like me, does it?

247

00:24:33,856 --> 00:24:36,689

But maybe this is the real me,

24800:24:36,731 --> 00:24:38,856

not the old Jerska.

249

00:24:39,064 --> 00:24:42,898

He was friendly and caring, nourished by success...

250

00:24:44,856 --> 00:24:48,148

all thanks to the grace of the bigwigs.

251

00:24:52,481 --> 00:24:54,481

But I won't complain much longer.

252

00:24:55,314 --> 00:24:59,023

In my next life, I'll simply be an author.

253

00:24:59,064 --> 00:25:02,981

A happy author

who can write whenever he wants.

254

00:25:04,273 --> 00:25:05,564

Like you.

255

00:25:07,189 --> 00:25:10,273

What is a director if he can't direct?

256

00:25:11,106 --> 00:25:14,481


22/102

He's a projectionist without a film,

257

00:25:14,564 --> 00:25:16,398

a miller without corn. He is nothing.

258

00:25:21,731 --> 00:25:23,731

Nothing at all.

259

00:25:27,106 --> 00:25:32,314

Albert, the Minister was at the premiere.

Minister Hempf.

260

00:25:33,814 --> 00:25:36,773I spoke to him about your blacklisting.

261

00:25:41,231 --> 00:25:43,064

It looks promising.

262

00:25:43,481 --> 00:25:48,773

He gave me hope, concrete hope. Literally.

26300:25:50,856 --> 00:25:51,731

Really?

264

00:25:56,189 --> 00:25:57,689

That's great.

265

00:26:40,897 --> 00:26:43,939

Cheap Georgian wine. Chateau Jerska.

266

00:26:44,022 --> 00:26:46,897

So is our holy drinker coming?

267

00:26:50,064 --> 00:26:52,314

I forgot to ask him.

268

00:26:58,481 --> 00:27:01,981

You're strong and forceful.

That's how I need you.


23/102

269

00:27:02,481 --> 00:27:04,814

Don't let this blackness into your life.

27000:27:04,897 --> 00:27:08,064

- Albert is my friend.

- And you're my boyfriend.

271

00:27:08,231 --> 00:27:10,356

Looks like a 50th.

272

00:27:10,939 --> 00:27:13,189

But I'm going to be 40, right?

273

00:27:13,314 --> 00:27:17,772

Don't forget, you promised

to wear a tie for your birthday.

274

00:27:18,272 --> 00:27:20,439

I would, but I don't have one.

27500:27:24,772 --> 00:27:26,314

Bon anniversaire!

276

00:27:29,814 --> 00:27:31,356

A tie?

277

00:27:31,481 --> 00:27:33,189

You said you didn't want any books.

278

00:27:35,939 --> 00:27:37,981

Or can't you tie a tie,

279

00:27:38,022 --> 00:27:39,231

you old working-class poet?

280

00:27:39,647 --> 00:27:40,731

What?


24/102

281

00:27:42,231 --> 00:27:44,106

I was born wearing a tie!

282

00:27:44,939 --> 00:27:46,481I had to "fight my way out

283

00:27:46,564 --> 00:27:49,231

of my middle-class fetters".

284

00:27:49,606 --> 00:27:53,314

Then put those fetters on again, just for me.

28500:28:01,606 --> 00:28:04,272

Alright... It's no

286

00:28:05,314 --> 00:28:07,356

big deal to tie a tie.

287

00:28:22,606 --> 00:28:26,731

Frau Meineke, would you come in for a moment!

288

00:28:34,064 --> 00:28:37,106

Can you tie a tie?

289

00:28:41,856 --> 00:28:44,189

You've no idea how thankful I am.

290

00:28:49,731 --> 00:28:54,772

- Are you feeling unwell?

- No... I'm feeling fine.

291

00:28:55,356 --> 00:28:56,564

Finished?

292

00:29:01,064 --> 00:29:05,106

Wonderful. It's perfect.

It couldn't be better.

293


25/102

00:29:06,356 --> 00:29:10,147

It'll be our secret.

You can keep a secret, right?

294

00:29:10,689 --> 00:29:12,064Of course.

295

00:29:22,564 --> 00:29:26,397

I'll be damned! And I thought you couldn't do it.

296

00:29:26,772 --> 00:29:29,397

You don't normally hide your talents.

29700:29:29,606 --> 00:29:32,272

You've no idea of the things I can do!

298

00:29:37,147 --> 00:29:38,689

The first guest.

299

00:29:44,356 --> 00:29:47,231

Our dear neighbors locked the main door again.

300

00:29:47,314 --> 00:29:49,272

- Can you go?

- Yes, I'm going.

301

00:30:16,147 --> 00:30:18,855

Maestro! Our humble offerings.

302

00:30:18,980 --> 00:30:22,772

- I expressly said no books!

- But thanks.

303

00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:26,605

Would you like a drink?

304

00:30:26,689 --> 00:30:28,689

- A soda.

- Vodka for me.


26/102

305

00:30:28,772 --> 00:30:29,605

I'll get it.

306

00:30:40,730 --> 00:30:43,480Why the hell's Albert sitting all alone?

307

00:30:43,689 --> 00:30:46,814

He won't talk to us.

He sent us all away.

308

00:31:01,189 --> 00:31:02,897

I brought you something too.

309

00:31:06,980 --> 00:31:11,897

- Did you really come here to read?

- It is Brecht!

310

00:31:20,564 --> 00:31:23,647

I feel like a fraud among these people.

311

00:31:24,105 --> 00:31:25,647A fraud?

312

00:31:25,939 --> 00:31:29,814

Come off it, Albert!

You're losing your grip on reality.

313

00:31:31,272 --> 00:31:33,564

You know how we admire you,

314

00:31:33,647 --> 00:31:35,439

how everybody admires you.

315

00:31:35,564 --> 00:31:38,564

For something I did 10 years ago...

316

00:31:40,939 --> 00:31:43,939

and could probably never do again.


27/102

317

00:31:47,855 --> 00:31:50,564

My favorite director! Wait!

318

00:31:50,605 --> 00:31:52,147I need to talk to you a moment.

319

00:31:52,314 --> 00:31:54,272

Tell me again how you got into this position.

320

00:31:54,314 --> 00:31:56,897

Pure talent.

32100:31:57,730 --> 00:32:00,772

Of course!

322

00:32:01,314 --> 00:32:03,897

But what else did you have to do?

323

00:32:04,730 --> 00:32:07,272

Everyone knows you're with the Stasi!

324

00:32:07,355 --> 00:32:09,814

- What an outrageous insinuation!

- Don't forget it!

325

00:32:09,814 --> 00:32:11,647

- Paul!

- What?

326

00:32:12,272 --> 00:32:15,230

Excuse my friend, he's had too much to drink.

327

00:32:18,230 --> 00:32:21,314

But you know he's with the Stasi!

328

00:32:21,355 --> 00:32:24,022

No, Paul. I don't know that.

329


28/102

00:32:43,355 --> 00:32:46,772

You're such an idealist

that you're almost a bigwig.

330

00:32:46,939 --> 00:32:49,980It was informers and conformists

like that who ruined Albert.

331

00:32:50,064 --> 00:32:52,147

Spy, betrayer!

332

00:32:52,439 --> 00:32:55,897

If you don't take a stand, you're not human!

333

00:32:56,064 --> 00:32:59,230

If you ever want to take action, call.

334

00:32:59,397 --> 00:33:02,147

If not, we don't have to meet again.

335

00:33:31,272 --> 00:33:33,897

Your friends don't have much taste.

336

00:33:34,438 --> 00:33:36,022

That's really unfair.

337

00:33:36,272 --> 00:33:40,230

Here! Look at this beautiful backscratcher.

338

00:33:40,563 --> 00:33:42,938

That's a salad fork!

339

00:33:43,730 --> 00:33:46,438

Still, it's beautiful... And look at this.

340

00:33:48,022 --> 00:33:51,813

I'll write my new play with this.

341

00:33:52,938 --> 00:33:54,980


29/102

You have no taste either!

342

00:33:56,272 --> 00:33:58,313

I do in some things.

343

00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:18,313

- It's from Jerska.

- So he did give you a book!

344

00:34:21,980 --> 00:34:25,313

"Sonata for a Good Man"

345

00:34:49,063 --> 00:34:53,230"'Lazlo' and CMS unwrap presents,

346

00:34:53,355 --> 00:34:57,147

then presumably have intercourse."

347

00:35:00,438 --> 00:35:02,313

You're late.

34800:35:02,813 --> 00:35:04,605

Sorry, Captain.

349

00:35:04,688 --> 00:35:07,730

Those red lights made me

lose all of four minutes.

350

00:35:08,230 --> 00:35:09,938

You know how it is.

351

00:35:18,647 --> 00:35:25,147

They're already at it! Unbelievable! These artists!

352

00:35:25,647 --> 00:35:27,230

They're always at it!

353

00:35:27,313 --> 00:35:30,522

That's why I prefer monitoring artists


30/102

to priests or peace activists.

354

00:35:33,813 --> 00:35:35,813

See you tomorrow at 11 a.m.

355

00:35:43,522 --> 00:35:47,647

Albert Jerska, operation 'Engerling'.

Systematic as usual, Wiesler.

356

00:35:47,730 --> 00:35:50,605

The files will be sent. Let's have lunch.

357

00:36:01,647 --> 00:36:05,980The BSG Volleyball team will meet at 7 p.m.

358

00:36:07,147 --> 00:36:09,355

Did you forget? Bosses sit over there.

359

00:36:10,063 --> 00:36:13,105

Socialism must start somewhere.

36000:36:18,855 --> 00:36:20,730

About the license plate of the car

361

00:36:20,813 --> 00:36:24,563

that brought Ms. Sieland home...

362

00:36:26,355 --> 00:36:29,272

It's Minister Hempf's car.

363

00:36:32,272 --> 00:36:33,313

Wiesler,

364

00:36:34,105 --> 00:36:38,522

we can't monitor top officials.

I removed the entry in your report.

365

00:36:38,688 --> 00:36:41,647

Nothing written from now on,


31/102

366

00:36:41,688 --> 00:36:43,897

just oral!

36700:36:45,855 --> 00:36:50,397

So we're helping a Committee member

get a rival out of the way.

368

00:36:52,355 --> 00:36:54,397

You know what this could mean

369

00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:58,105

for my career. And for yours.

370

00:36:59,188 --> 00:37:01,771

If we find something...

371

00:37:06,771 --> 00:37:08,563

Is that why we joined?

372

00:37:09,896 --> 00:37:11,813You remember the oath we took?

373

00:37:11,938 --> 00:37:14,396

"We are the Party's shield and sword."

374

00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:16,938

What is the Party, if not its members?

375

00:37:17,438 --> 00:37:20,480

And if those members

are highly influential, all the better!

376

00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:23,063

I've got a new one.

377

00:37:23,771 --> 00:37:27,271

Honecker comes into his office,


32/102

378

00:37:27,521 --> 00:37:30,396

opens the window, sees the sun, and says...

379

00:37:31,771 --> 00:37:33,563What's wrong?

380

00:37:37,605 --> 00:37:40,896

Oh, excuse me... I just...

381

00:37:40,980 --> 00:37:43,105

No, carry on, colleague!

38200:37:43,521 --> 00:37:47,730

No harm in laughing about

the Party Chairman, is there.

383

00:37:48,521 --> 00:37:50,230

I probably know the joke anyway.

384

00:37:53,521 --> 00:37:54,938

Come on, tell us!

385

00:37:57,730 --> 00:38:01,855

Well... Honecker...

386

00:38:02,730 --> 00:38:04,688

I mean, the Comrade General Secretary

sees the sun and says,

387

00:38:04,771 --> 00:38:07,771

- "Good morning, dear sun!"

- More like, "Good morning, dear sun!"

388

00:38:12,438 --> 00:38:16,521

The sun replies, "Good morning, dear Erich!"

389

00:38:16,605 --> 00:38:20,063

And at noon, Erich goes to the window and says,


33/102

390

00:38:20,146 --> 00:38:21,688

"Good day, dear sun!"

391

00:38:21,730 --> 00:38:24,105The sun replies, "Good day, dear Erich!"

392

00:38:24,146 --> 00:38:27,563

In the evening, Erich says again,

393

00:38:27,605 --> 00:38:28,896

"Good evening, dear sun!"

39400:38:28,980 --> 00:38:30,646

and the sun doesn't reply.

395

00:38:31,271 --> 00:38:32,188

"Good evening, dear sun..."

396

00:38:32,271 --> 00:38:35,188

"What's wrong?" he asks.

397

00:38:35,313 --> 00:38:36,480

And the sun replies,

398

00:38:36,563 --> 00:38:38,771

"Screw you, I'm in the West now!"

399

00:38:45,396 --> 00:38:46,646

Name?

400

00:38:47,396 --> 00:38:49,021

Rank? Department?

401

00:38:50,730 --> 00:38:52,146

Me?

402

00:38:54,355 --> 00:38:55,855

Stigler.


34/102

403

00:38:56,396 --> 00:38:59,521

2nd Lieutenant Axel Stigler. Dept. M.

40400:38:59,980 --> 00:39:02,230

I don't have to tell you

405

00:39:02,313 --> 00:39:04,563

what this means for your career.

406

00:39:06,896 --> 00:39:11,480

Please, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel,

I was just...

407

00:39:11,605 --> 00:39:15,688

You were just deriding the Party!

That's incitement,

408

00:39:16,105 --> 00:39:18,188

and likely just the tip of the iceberg!

40900:39:18,938 --> 00:39:21,688

I will report this to the Minister's office.

410

00:39:33,563 --> 00:39:36,688

Just kidding! Good one, huh?

411

00:39:36,980 --> 00:39:40,480

But yours was good too.

I know a better one though.

412

00:39:40,938 --> 00:39:44,230

What's the difference between Honecker and a phone?

413

00:39:45,188 --> 00:39:46,355

None at all.

414

00:39:46,521 --> 00:39:48,855

Hang up, try again!


35/102

415

00:40:31,729 --> 00:40:34,813

- No, I have to get home.

- Bye.

416

00:40:43,146 --> 00:40:43,979

Cold?

417

00:40:47,188 --> 00:40:50,771

Christa, you forgot our meeting on Thursday.

418

00:40:51,938 --> 00:40:54,938

Or did your poet have two birthdays in a row?

419

00:40:57,729 --> 00:40:58,729

Come on, get in.

420

00:40:59,979 --> 00:41:00,813

Get in!

421

00:41:13,604 --> 00:41:15,896You don't know what's good for you.

422

00:41:30,896 --> 00:41:32,313

Don't worry.

423

00:41:34,021 --> 00:41:36,104

I'm looking after you.

424

00:41:50,979 --> 00:41:53,396

Tell me you don't need it too.

425

00:41:54,479 --> 00:41:56,521

Just say so, and I'll let you go.

426

00:42:07,646 --> 00:42:09,271

I'm meeting someone.

427


36/102

00:42:12,146 --> 00:42:13,896

Where do you think we're going?

428

00:42:15,854 --> 00:42:20,771

I'm taking you to him!You'll be there even quicker.

429

00:43:16,146 --> 00:43:18,146

Time for some bitter truths.

430

00:43:35,188 --> 00:43:36,021

Yes?

43100:43:45,896 --> 00:43:47,354

Those idiots!

432

00:44:10,062 --> 00:44:12,729

Next Thursday at the Metropol.

433

00:44:14,396 --> 00:44:15,521

Drive!

434

00:46:35,562 --> 00:46:36,812

Christa?

435

00:46:38,937 --> 00:46:40,812

Just hold me.

436

00:47:11,812 --> 00:47:13,521

Good evening, comrade!

437

00:47:15,396 --> 00:47:18,104

You're 5 minutes late again.

438

00:48:01,645 --> 00:48:04,687

Evening. 11th floor, right corridor.

439

00:48:04,895 --> 00:48:07,020

I'm already up here.


37/102

440

00:48:11,645 --> 00:48:14,145

How did you get into the building?

44100:48:14,562 --> 00:48:16,895

A bunch of you guys live here.

442

00:48:18,937 --> 00:48:21,145

I don't think I've been here before.

443

00:48:21,687 --> 00:48:23,270

No, I don't think you have.

444

00:48:36,645 --> 00:48:39,562

Well? Was that nice?

445

00:48:48,062 --> 00:48:51,354

- Stay awhile.

- I can't,

446

00:48:51,854 --> 00:48:53,895my next customer is at half-past.

447

00:48:55,854 --> 00:48:57,729

I work on a schedule.

448

00:49:04,020 --> 00:49:07,645

At one-thirty?

You won't make it.

449

00:49:07,937 --> 00:49:11,312

Sure I will. Don't you worry.

450

00:49:13,104 --> 00:49:15,437

Book me for longer next time.

451

00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:17,145

Bye.


38/102

452

00:50:23,562 --> 00:50:27,479

Georg? Did you hear about Hauser?

453

00:50:28,395 --> 00:50:29,520No, what happened?

454

00:50:29,812 --> 00:50:31,812

He can't get a travel permit

455

00:50:31,854 --> 00:50:33,395

for his lectures in the West.

45600:50:35,895 --> 00:50:37,354

Are you surprised?

457

00:50:38,020 --> 00:50:40,895

If he acts so arrogantly,

he should expect it.

458

00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:45,437

Would you let him go,if you were in their position?

459

00:50:50,020 --> 00:51:00,270

"CMS comes home. 'Lazlo' approves of

Hauser's foreign travel ban."

460

00:51:07,312 --> 00:51:09,687

Have you seen my Brecht book?

461

00:51:09,770 --> 00:51:11,437

- What?

- My Brecht book.

462

00:51:13,145 --> 00:51:14,312

I don't know where it is.

463

00:51:16,312 --> 00:51:18,853

Strange. I could've sworn...


39/102

464

00:51:19,937 --> 00:51:25,270

One day in blue-moon September,

silent under a plum tree,

465

00:51:25,687 --> 00:51:29,020

I held her, my silent pale love,

in my arms like a fair

466

00:51:29,103 --> 00:51:31,562

and lovely dream.

467

00:51:32,395 --> 00:51:34,770Above us in the summer skies

468

00:51:34,895 --> 00:51:37,437

was a cloud that caught my eye.

469

00:51:37,770 --> 00:51:41,520

It was white and so high up.

47000:51:41,645 --> 00:51:45,187

And when I looked up,

it was no longer there.

471

00:52:05,853 --> 00:52:08,395

- Yes?

- Georg? Wallner here.

472

00:52:08,812 --> 00:52:09,687

What's up?

473

00:52:11,478 --> 00:52:13,228

Georg, it's about Jerska.

474

00:52:14,020 --> 00:52:16,812

He hanged himself last night.

475

00:52:24,603 --> 00:52:26,062


40/102

Georg?

476

00:52:28,395 --> 00:52:30,270

I'm going to hang up, okay?

477

00:53:01,478 --> 00:53:04,312

"Sonata for a Good Man"

478

00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:22,603

You know what Lenin said

about Beethoven's 'Appassionata'.

479

00:54:25,187 --> 00:54:26,520"If I keep listening to it,

480

00:54:26,561 --> 00:54:29,061

I won't finish the revolution."

481

00:54:33,603 --> 00:54:36,395

Can anyone who has heard this music,

48200:54:37,311 --> 00:54:38,811

I mean truly heard it,

483

00:54:39,978 --> 00:54:42,603

really be a bad person?

484

00:55:16,228 --> 00:55:18,270

Are you really with the Stasi?

485

00:55:23,936 --> 00:55:26,978

Do you even know what the Stasi is?

486

00:55:27,061 --> 00:55:32,603

Yes. They're bad men

who put people in prison, says my dad.

487

00:55:33,728 --> 00:55:34,728

I see.


41/102

488

00:55:35,395 --> 00:55:37,353

What's the name of your...

48900:55:41,061 --> 00:55:42,436

My what?

490

00:55:44,311 --> 00:55:46,603

Ball! What's the name of your ball?

491

00:55:46,853 --> 00:55:50,270

You're funny! Balls don't have names.

492

00:55:56,895 --> 00:55:58,895

It's all in place, Minister.

493

00:55:59,228 --> 00:56:01,061

The latest technology.

494

00:56:01,895 --> 00:56:04,353

Behind every light switch, even in the toilet.

495

00:56:04,478 --> 00:56:07,770

- Measure C in the hall...

- You said you'd find something!

496

00:56:07,936 --> 00:56:08,936

Find something!

497

00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:13,686

I'd advise even my worst enemy

not to disappoint me.

498

00:56:17,478 --> 00:56:18,811

Now get out of here!

499

00:56:27,936 --> 00:56:29,853

Nowack, you're to watch Christa-Maria.


42/102

500

00:56:30,020 --> 00:56:33,603

You'll report on every minute

that she's not with me.

50100:56:35,686 --> 00:56:39,603

We revoked Hauser's travel permit

for the culture conference.

502

00:56:39,686 --> 00:56:43,978

Maybe that'll lead to something.

The two of them are very close.

503

00:56:45,603 --> 00:56:48,436How's it going between CMS and the Minister?

504

00:56:48,603 --> 00:56:52,020

They're meeting tomorrow night, I think.

505

00:56:52,228 --> 00:56:56,270

That's good! Very good!

We have a lot to gain from this love story.

506

00:56:57,686 --> 00:56:59,311

Or a lot to lose.

507

00:57:00,145 --> 00:57:01,145

Don't forget that.

508

00:57:14,145 --> 00:57:16,811

I used to be afraid of just two things:

509

00:57:17,811 --> 00:57:20,436

Being alone, and not being able to write.

510

00:57:22,645 --> 00:57:24,728

Since Albert's death,

I don't care about writing

511

00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:27,020


43/102

or about other people.

512

00:57:28,936 --> 00:57:31,270

All I'm afraid of now is losing you.

513

00:57:32,936 --> 00:57:35,395

You needn't be afraid tonight.

514

00:57:37,228 --> 00:57:39,186

I'm just going out for a few hours.

515

00:57:39,353 --> 00:57:40,770

Where to?

516

00:57:41,478 --> 00:57:44,270

An old classmate's in town.

517

00:57:45,186 --> 00:57:46,436

Really, Christa?

518

00:57:49,103 --> 00:57:52,645- Really?

- How dare you!

519

00:57:55,978 --> 00:57:57,436

I know.

520

00:57:59,728 --> 00:58:01,728

I know where you're going.

521

00:58:04,728 --> 00:58:06,644

And I'm asking you not to go.

522

00:58:08,144 --> 00:58:09,978

You don't need him.

523

00:58:10,936 --> 00:58:12,061

You don't need him.


44/102

524

00:58:21,561 --> 00:58:23,186

I know about your medication too.

525

00:58:25,644 --> 00:58:28,394And how little faith you have in your talent.

526

00:58:29,853 --> 00:58:31,519

Have faith in me, at least.

527

00:58:34,228 --> 00:58:35,894

Christa-Maria.

52800:58:36,978 --> 00:58:39,019

You are a great artist.

529

00:58:41,478 --> 00:58:45,394

I know that.

And your audience knows it too.

530

00:58:46,978 --> 00:58:48,644

You don't need him.

531

00:58:51,019 --> 00:58:52,603

You don't need him.

532

00:58:53,353 --> 00:58:54,686

Stay here.

533

00:58:56,103 --> 00:58:57,561

Don't go to him.

534

00:59:01,353 --> 00:59:08,603

No? Don't I need him?

Don't I need this whole system?

535

00:59:12,353 --> 00:59:13,936

What about you?

536


45/102

00:59:15,186 --> 00:59:18,228

Then you don't need it either.

Or need it even less.

537

00:59:19,769 --> 00:59:22,103But you get in bed with them too.

538

00:59:22,186 --> 00:59:24,061

Why do you do it?

539

00:59:24,394 --> 00:59:26,519

Because they can destroy you too,

54000:59:26,644 --> 00:59:29,644

despite your talent and your faith.

541

00:59:32,394 --> 00:59:36,269

Because they decide what we play,

who is to act,

542

00:59:36,311 --> 00:59:38,561

and who can direct.

543

00:59:41,936 --> 00:59:44,186

You don't want to end up like Jerska.

544

00:59:44,978 --> 00:59:46,728

And neither do I.

545

00:59:47,728 --> 00:59:49,769

That's why I'm going now.

546

00:59:50,936 --> 00:59:56,311

You're right about so many things,

and I want to change so much.

547

00:59:59,269 --> 01:00:00,353

But I ask you,

548


46/102

01:00:01,353 --> 01:00:03,936

I implore you: Don't go!

549

01:00:04,894 --> 01:00:06,936

Well, boss, am I on time?

550

01:00:07,936 --> 01:00:10,478

Let me guess what those two are doing...

551

01:00:13,353 --> 01:00:14,894

Come on, I'll take over.

552

01:00:14,936 --> 01:00:17,894I don't want you

to do overtime because of me.

553

01:00:27,978 --> 01:00:30,019

"Don't go through that door."

554

01:00:30,103 --> 01:00:32,103

Where's she going?

555

01:00:33,144 --> 01:00:36,061

To meet an old classmate.

556

01:00:42,144 --> 01:00:44,228

You'll have my detailed report tomorrow.

557

01:00:44,478 --> 01:00:45,936

I can manage.

558

01:00:49,811 --> 01:00:51,519

Good night.

559

01:01:44,602 --> 01:01:46,436

What are you staring at?

560

01:01:56,519 --> 01:01:57,727

Soda water.


47/102

561

01:02:00,602 --> 01:02:03,394

No, uh... Vodka.

56201:02:04,394 --> 01:02:05,644

Double.

563

01:02:12,561 --> 01:02:14,269

Another one.

564

01:02:29,352 --> 01:02:31,519

Can I have a cognac, please?

565

01:03:23,977 --> 01:03:25,144

Madam?

566

01:03:25,936 --> 01:03:28,519

Go away, I want to be alone.

567

01:03:29,227 --> 01:03:30,727

Ms. Sieland.

568

01:03:33,394 --> 01:03:34,769

Do we know each other?

569

01:03:35,144 --> 01:03:36,936

You don't know me, but I know you.

570

01:03:40,019 --> 01:03:41,727

Many people love you

571

01:03:41,769 --> 01:03:44,061

for who you are.

572

01:03:48,644 --> 01:03:52,227

- Actors are never 'who they are.'

- You are.

573


48/102

01:03:59,144 --> 01:04:01,227

I've seen you on stage.

574

01:04:02,269 --> 01:04:07,269

You were more who you are...

575

01:04:10,436 --> 01:04:12,269

than you are now.

576

01:04:16,144 --> 01:04:17,852

So you know what I'm like.

577

01:04:18,227 --> 01:04:20,061I'm your audience.

578

01:04:27,352 --> 01:04:29,894

- I have to go.

- Where to?

579

01:04:31,519 --> 01:04:34,727

I'm meeting an old classmate. I...

580

01:04:34,852 --> 01:04:38,686

You see?

Just now you weren't being yourself.

581

01:04:40,894 --> 01:04:41,894

No?

582

01:04:42,352 --> 01:04:43,311

No.

583

01:04:56,102 --> 01:05:00,310

So you know her well,

this Christa-Maria Sieland.

584

01:05:02,894 --> 01:05:04,602

What do you think...

585


49/102

01:05:05,310 --> 01:05:08,977

Would she hurt someone

who loves her above all else?

586

01:05:13,144 --> 01:05:16,019Would she sell herself for art?

587

01:05:16,310 --> 01:05:18,144

For art?

588

01:05:18,269 --> 01:05:22,060

You already have art.

That'd be a bad deal.

589

01:05:23,144 --> 01:05:25,352

You are a great artist.

590

01:05:27,019 --> 01:05:28,185

Don't you know that?

591

01:05:33,894 --> 01:05:35,435

And you are a good man.

592

01:06:11,560 --> 01:06:14,644

"When I begin my shift, 'Lazlo' and CMS

593

01:06:14,769 --> 01:06:19,727

are arguing about whether CMS

should meet her classmate.

594

01:06:20,019 --> 01:06:23,894

Eventually, she leaves.

'Lazlo' seems unhappy about this.

595

01:06:26,102 --> 01:06:30,102

But after about 20 minutes, CMS returns,

596

01:06:30,185 --> 01:06:32,477

to 'Lazlo's' surprise, and mine.


50/102

597

01:06:32,685 --> 01:06:38,144

He seems very happy about this.

Vigorous acts of intimacy follow.

59801:06:41,685 --> 01:06:44,519

She says she'll never leave again.

599

01:06:44,727 --> 01:06:50,060

He says repeatedly: 'Now I'll have the strength,

now I'll do something.'

600

01:06:50,310 --> 01:06:54,519

This likely refers to writing a new stage play.

601

01:06:54,810 --> 01:06:59,935

In recent weeks, 'Lazlo's' playwriting

had been plagued by difficulties.

602

01:07:00,227 --> 01:07:02,852

What she means by her statement is unclear.

60301:07:02,935 --> 01:07:07,394

Perhaps she intends to

take better care of his household.

604

01:07:08,019 --> 01:07:10,310

The rest of the night was peaceful."

605

01:07:11,185 --> 01:07:18,019

Oh, comrade... uh... It's just because...

He's sleeping too...

606

01:07:18,810 --> 01:07:20,102

Good report.

607

01:07:23,310 --> 01:07:24,894

Really?

608

01:07:43,019 --> 01:07:45,435


51/102

I didn't know he was in such a bad way.

609

01:07:49,310 --> 01:07:50,852

Neither did I.

610

01:07:57,727 --> 01:07:59,519

"On One Who Made it to the Other Side:

611

01:08:00,727 --> 01:08:03,727

The statistics office on Hans Beimler Street

612

01:08:03,852 --> 01:08:06,435

counts everything, knows everything.

613

01:08:06,685 --> 01:08:09,977

How many shoes I buy a year: 2.3.

614

01:08:10,060 --> 01:08:12,560

How many books I read a year: 3.2.

615

01:08:12,602 --> 01:08:19,310And how many pupils graduate

with straight A's every year: 6347.

616

01:08:19,477 --> 01:08:22,560

But there is one thing they don't count,

617

01:08:22,810 --> 01:08:26,435

maybe because even bureaucrats find it painful,

618

01:08:26,685 --> 01:08:28,310

and that's suicides.

619

01:08:28,810 --> 01:08:31,685

If you call Beimler Street to ask

620

01:08:31,727 --> 01:08:34,518

how many people between the Elbe and the Oder,


52/102

621

01:08:34,810 --> 01:08:37,602

between the Baltic Sea and the Ore

Mountains despair drove to their death,

62201:08:38,102 --> 01:08:39,977

our numbers oracle is silent.

623

01:08:40,060 --> 01:08:42,477

But it may just note your name

for State Security...

624

01:08:42,685 --> 01:08:44,560

Those grey men

625

01:08:44,852 --> 01:08:50,435

who ensure safety in our land... and happiness.

626

01:08:50,852 --> 01:08:55,060

In 1977, our country

stopped counting suicides.

62701:08:55,810 --> 01:08:59,143

They called them 'self-murderers'.

628

01:08:59,935 --> 01:09:03,018

But it has nothing to do with murder.

629

01:09:03,435 --> 01:09:08,102

It knows no bloodlust,\no heated passion,

630

01:09:08,518 --> 01:09:13,310

it knows only death, the death of all hope.

631

01:09:13,393 --> 01:09:16,143

When we stopped counting,

632

01:09:16,393 --> 01:09:19,685

only one country in Europe

drove more people to their death:


53/102

633

01:09:20,143 --> 01:09:21,227

Hungary.

63401:09:21,435 --> 01:09:26,102

We came next, the land of

'Real Existing Socialism'.

635

01:09:26,185 --> 01:09:29,268

One of the uncounted

is Albert Jerska,

636

01:09:29,477 --> 01:09:31,102the great director.

637

01:09:31,477 --> 01:09:33,352

It's him I want to talk about today..."

638

01:09:38,560 --> 01:09:40,810

I tried to get statistics that show...

63901:09:40,852 --> 01:09:43,310

...that State Security operates more

effectively than we think!

640

01:09:43,393 --> 01:09:44,768

I foolishly rehearsed

641

01:09:53,352 --> 01:09:56,643

my speech for the West in here.

642

01:09:59,227 --> 01:10:02,143

Since then, I've become very musical.

643

01:10:04,435 --> 01:10:06,018

We can meet at my place.

644

01:10:13,685 --> 01:10:16,560

"3 p.m., Pankow Memorial"


54/102

645

01:10:22,477 --> 01:10:24,352

Well? Is this safe enough?

64601:10:29,518 --> 01:10:31,268

My own 'bodyguard'.

647

01:10:31,393 --> 01:10:34,102

I call him Rolf.

That's probably his name, too.

648

01:10:36,977 --> 01:10:38,227

Fire away.

649

01:10:39,227 --> 01:10:40,310

Here.

650

01:10:51,393 --> 01:10:52,643

You want to publish this?

651

01:10:53,685 --> 01:10:56,477In the West, with your help.

652

01:11:02,352 --> 01:11:04,768

Will you help? Have you told Christa?

653

01:11:04,935 --> 01:11:06,060

No.

654

01:11:07,477 --> 01:11:08,518

I'll help you,

655

01:11:08,560 --> 01:11:12,185

as long as you don't tell her anything.

656

01:11:12,310 --> 01:11:13,393

What?

657


55/102

01:11:13,518 --> 01:11:15,685

Georg, it's for her own protection.

658

01:11:17,435 --> 01:11:18,852

This could be right for the 'Spiegel'.

659

01:11:19,018 --> 01:11:20,893

I'm friends with an editor there.

660

01:11:21,018 --> 01:11:22,810

Gregor Hessenstein. Know him?

661

01:11:22,935 --> 01:11:23,977Not personally.

662

01:11:24,018 --> 01:11:25,602

You have to meet him.

663

01:11:27,060 --> 01:11:29,727

But you can't publish using your real name.

66401:11:30,810 --> 01:11:34,935

Unless your idea of fun

is a 48-hour interrogation.

665

01:11:36,268 --> 01:11:38,060

I'm cold!

666

01:11:39,185 --> 01:11:40,602

We could go to my place?

667

01:11:42,310 --> 01:11:44,477

There's no State Security at my place!

668

01:11:44,643 --> 01:11:47,143

A friend of Margot Honecker,

669

01:11:47,185 --> 01:11:48,768

winner of the National Award...


56/102

670

01:11:48,852 --> 01:11:50,518

Second class!

67101:11:51,060 --> 01:11:52,643

My apartment is clean, I tell you!

672

01:11:53,727 --> 01:11:56,768

If only we could be sure...

673

01:11:59,601 --> 01:12:02,435

I have an idea

how we can check your apartment.

674

01:12:03,060 --> 01:12:05,101

You know my uncle Frank,

675

01:12:05,226 --> 01:12:07,851

who visits from West Berlin every Saturday,

676

01:12:07,935 --> 01:12:10,393with his big gold Mercedes.

677

01:12:11,226 --> 01:12:13,935

It seems a bit risky to me, Mr. Hauser.

678

01:12:14,643 --> 01:12:17,310

Yes, I agree with Georg.

679

01:12:17,476 --> 01:12:20,268

Hiding your nephew under the back seat?

680

01:12:20,435 --> 01:12:22,310

I'm really not sure.

681

01:12:22,935 --> 01:12:25,768

Come on, they won't search under the seats.

682


57/102

01:12:25,825 --> 01:12:28,617

They'll look under the axles, tap the exhaust,

683

01:12:28,742 --> 01:12:31,408

then I'll be across. Paul too.

684

01:12:32,367 --> 01:12:36,825

The border guards aren't very bright.

You've got the wrong idea there.

685

01:12:39,825 --> 01:12:42,950

- Which border will you cross?

- Heinrich-Heine Street.

686

01:12:43,033 --> 01:12:44,742

Good old Henrich Heine.

687

01:12:44,783 --> 01:12:48,117

They know me and my gold Mercedes.

688

01:12:48,200 --> 01:12:51,158

I'm friends with the guards.

689

01:12:51,700 --> 01:12:54,825

Trust me, I'll call you in 2 hours,

690

01:12:54,908 --> 01:12:55,992

a Schultheiss beer in my hand,

691

01:12:56,075 --> 01:12:58,908

and report the news:

692

01:12:58,992 --> 01:13:00,658

Paul's across.

693

01:13:02,408 --> 01:13:04,325

No! What about Paul's Stasi man?

694

01:13:04,450 --> 01:13:09,617


58/102

Rolf! Rolfy, Rolfy...

He'll think that Paul's at home.

695

01:13:11,408 --> 01:13:13,283

Okay, I have to go.

696

01:13:13,492 --> 01:13:17,617

We wouldn't want him to suffocate, would we?

697

01:13:34,242 --> 01:13:35,533

Another beer?

698

01:13:40,908 --> 01:13:42,992Border control, Heinrich-Heine Street.

699

01:13:44,950 --> 01:13:46,158

Who is this?

700

01:13:47,200 --> 01:13:48,450

Who is this?

70101:13:50,033 --> 01:13:51,283

No reply.

702

01:13:56,575 --> 01:13:58,325

Just this once, my friend.

703

01:14:22,491 --> 01:14:24,158

- Dreyman.

- Okay,

704

01:14:24,241 --> 01:14:26,533

Paul's plan worked!

705

01:14:26,866 --> 01:14:28,741

No border control at all?

706

01:14:28,783 --> 01:14:31,825

No, no special checks.


59/102

707

01:14:31,908 --> 01:14:33,783

Those boys aren't so bad.

70801:14:33,991 --> 01:14:35,866

It worked as planned.

709

01:14:35,866 --> 01:14:38,533

Thanks for doing this, Mr. Hauser.

710

01:14:38,575 --> 01:14:43,366

Forget it, it wasn't all that dangerous.

711

01:14:43,450 --> 01:14:45,450

- Yeah, true.

- Yeah.

712

01:14:45,533 --> 01:14:48,033

See you soon, and thanks a lot.

713

01:14:48,075 --> 01:14:49,075Bye.

714

01:14:58,741 --> 01:15:02,033

What do we do if they ask

what we're doing together?

715

01:15:08,158 --> 01:15:09,866

Then... we'll say

716

01:15:11,783 --> 01:15:15,783

We'll say we're writing a stage play together.

717

01:15:16,950 --> 01:15:19,408

For the GDR's 40th anniversary.

718

01:15:20,116 --> 01:15:21,450

Yes!


60/102

719

01:15:21,783 --> 01:15:23,450

And it's kind of true.

720

01:15:27,158 --> 01:15:29,033Who'd have thought our State Security

721

01:15:29,116 --> 01:15:32,158

was so incompetent?

722

01:15:35,575 --> 01:15:39,700

Who'd have thought they were such idiots?

72301:15:43,575 --> 01:15:45,325

Just you wait...

724

01:15:55,075 --> 01:16:08,783

"7.32 p.m. No further noteworthy incidents."

725

01:16:20,075 --> 01:16:23,241

Hello, comrade. Listen to this here!

726

01:16:26,700 --> 01:16:30,158

Sure, in 1967 there were many suicides.

727

01:16:30,325 --> 01:16:32,700

But why in 1977? You must explain.

728

01:16:32,783 --> 01:16:35,533

You must describe

the social conditions more clearly.

729

01:16:37,033 --> 01:16:38,991

It should remain literature,

730

01:16:39,033 --> 01:16:40,741

not political agitation.

731

01:16:40,991 --> 01:16:42,491


61/102

The text is great.

732

01:16:42,700 --> 01:16:46,116

I just want to be sure people

understand it in the West.

733

01:16:46,200 --> 01:16:48,325

It'll cause a sensation either way.

734

01:16:49,366 --> 01:16:52,950

- That's Hauser!

- Of course it's Hauser.

73501:16:53,366 --> 01:16:55,616

He's not in the West!

736

01:17:01,825 --> 01:17:03,991

They're writing a play together.

737

01:17:05,950 --> 01:17:08,200

For the 40th anniversary.

738

01:17:08,950 --> 01:17:11,825

It doesn't sound like a play to me.

739

01:17:14,575 --> 01:17:16,283

No? Then what?

740

01:17:17,325 --> 01:17:20,075

I don't know... but not a play.

741

01:17:21,491 --> 01:17:24,241

You think a lot, Sergeant Leye.

742

01:17:24,616 --> 01:17:26,700

You're not an intellectual, are you?

743

01:17:27,033 --> 01:17:29,616

Me? No... I'm not one of those.


62/102

744

01:17:29,700 --> 01:17:32,116

Then don't behave like one.

74501:17:33,200 --> 01:17:35,950

I chose you because you know

the equipment

746

01:17:36,033 --> 01:17:38,658

and don't ask questions.

747

01:17:39,658 --> 01:17:41,616

Leave the thinking to your superiors.

748

01:17:41,908 --> 01:17:45,074

Yes, Captain. I'll be off, then.

749

01:17:45,616 --> 01:17:48,491

Have a nice day...

750

01:17:48,616 --> 01:17:51,866of work... I mean, I hope you enjoy your work.

751

01:17:56,866 --> 01:17:58,491

Maybe I can re-write this part.

752

01:18:00,241 --> 01:18:01,449

I'll send you

753

01:18:01,533 --> 01:18:03,241

all the material we have.

754

01:18:03,366 --> 01:18:05,574

Can you do it in two weeks?

755

01:18:06,658 --> 01:18:08,866

Then I could run it as a cover story

756


63/102

01:18:09,449 --> 01:18:11,158

for the first week in March.

757

01:18:13,699 --> 01:18:14,824

It's Christa.

758

01:18:16,616 --> 01:18:17,658

Georg?

759

01:18:19,699 --> 01:18:22,783

Christa, this is Gregor Hessenstein.

760

01:18:24,074 --> 01:18:26,824- Christa Sieland.

- Of course, I know that!

761

01:18:27,449 --> 01:18:29,283

So, what conspiracy are you cooking up?

762

01:18:30,241 --> 01:18:34,699

Hauser and I are writing a play

for the GDR's 40th anniversary.

763

01:18:34,783 --> 01:18:35,824

Together?

764

01:18:35,908 --> 01:18:39,241

The 'Spiegel' may do an article on it.

765

01:18:39,366 --> 01:18:42,283

- And who'll play the lead role?

- We planned to ask you.

766

01:18:42,366 --> 01:18:44,408

Christa, who would you rather play:

767

01:18:44,449 --> 01:18:46,533

Lenin or his dear old mother?

768


64/102

01:18:46,699 --> 01:18:48,408

You can choose.

769

01:18:49,241 --> 01:18:51,366

I see I'm not welcome here.

770

01:18:51,408 --> 01:18:53,324

I'll go for a nap.

771

01:19:01,199 --> 01:19:03,366

Your caution is praiseworthy.

772

01:19:04,324 --> 01:19:06,783The fewer people know, the better.

773

01:19:06,824 --> 01:19:08,491

The Stasi is not to be toyed with.

774

01:19:14,366 --> 01:19:18,158

On that note, I brought something for you.

77501:19:22,324 --> 01:19:25,949

I'd have preferred the whole pie.

I already have a typewriter.

776

01:19:26,033 --> 01:19:29,074

The Stasi can identify its typeface.

777

01:19:29,283 --> 01:19:30,908

If they intercepted the text at the border,

778

01:19:30,991 --> 01:19:32,699

for your typewriter using,

779

01:19:32,741 --> 01:19:34,616

you'd end up in Hohenschonhausen.

780

01:19:34,741 --> 01:19:36,991

And that's no fun,


65/102

781

01:19:37,074 --> 01:19:38,866

as Paul can confirm, right?

78201:19:40,574 --> 01:19:43,449

I'm afraid I could only get

a red ink ribbon for this model.

783

01:19:43,533 --> 01:19:47,824

Do you mind writing it in red?

784

01:19:48,158 --> 01:19:49,616

That won't be a problem.

785

01:19:50,699 --> 01:19:53,574

Is there somewhere you can hide it?

786

01:19:54,574 --> 01:19:57,908

- Yes, I'll find a place.

- Don't take it lightly.

78701:19:58,616 --> 01:20:00,616

I don't want my next article to be about

788

01:20:00,658 --> 01:20:03,074

your disappearance!

789

01:20:03,158 --> 01:20:06,116

Nobody may know that this typewriter exists!

790

01:20:08,449 --> 01:20:10,658

Is this apartment really safe?

791

01:20:10,783 --> 01:20:12,199

Yes.

792

01:20:13,866 --> 01:20:15,866

It's the only place left in the GDR


66/102

793

01:20:15,908 --> 01:20:17,949

where I can say what I want.

794

01:20:18,824 --> 01:20:21,199Fine, then let's drink to that!

795

01:20:24,116 --> 01:20:26,616

This is the real stuff.

796

01:20:28,033 --> 01:20:32,949

To you! To letting all of Germany

see the true face of the GDR!

797

01:20:40,324 --> 01:20:43,533

Cheers. It's better than the Russian stuff!

798

01:20:44,116 --> 01:20:45,824

To your success!

799

01:21:02,908 --> 01:21:05,283

I must see Comrade Grubitz.

800

01:21:07,866 --> 01:21:12,282

Tomorrow at 2.30 p.m...

801

01:21:13,199 --> 01:21:18,366

Tell him that if he blows the cover,

we'll shut down the entire parish!

802

01:21:18,407 --> 01:21:19,741

It's easy!

803

01:21:20,616 --> 01:21:22,866

He can call the Pope and complain!

804

01:21:23,074 --> 01:21:25,949

Okay, I've spent enough time on this nonsense.

805


67/102

01:21:27,282 --> 01:21:28,949

Wiesler, I'm glad you're here.

806

01:21:29,824 --> 01:21:31,407

I have to show you something.

807

01:21:33,074 --> 01:21:38,699

"Prison Conditions for Subversive Artists

Based on Character Profile."

808

01:21:38,907 --> 01:21:40,032

Pretty scientific, eh?

80901:21:41,532 --> 01:21:43,157

And look at this:

810

01:21:44,824 --> 01:21:49,866

"Dissertation supervisor: A. Grubitz."

That's great, isn't it?

811

01:21:52,532 --> 01:21:54,282

I only gave him a B...

812

01:21:54,907 --> 01:21:58,324

They shouldn't think

getting a doctorate with me is easy.

813

01:21:58,449 --> 01:22:00,449

But this is first-class.

814

01:22:00,574 --> 01:22:04,991

Did you know that there are just 5 types of artists?

815

01:22:05,907 --> 01:22:07,574

Your guy, Dreyman,

816

01:22:07,699 --> 01:22:11,324

is a type 4. A "hysterical anthropocentrist."

817


68/102

01:22:11,907 --> 01:22:13,324

Can't bear being alone,

818

01:22:13,407 --> 01:22:15,241

always talking, needing friends.

819

01:22:15,282 --> 01:22:17,699

That type should never be brought to trial.

820

01:22:17,782 --> 01:22:19,449

They thrive on that.

821

01:22:20,282 --> 01:22:22,949Temporary detention is the best way

822

01:22:23,032 --> 01:22:24,782

to deal with them.

823

01:22:24,824 --> 01:22:27,657

Complete isolation and no set release date.

82401:22:27,657 --> 01:22:29,616

No human contact the whole time,

825

01:22:29,699 --> 01:22:31,324

not even with the guards.

826

01:22:31,699 --> 01:22:33,532

Good treatment,

827

01:22:33,616 --> 01:22:36,116

no harassment, no abuse, no scandals...

828

01:22:36,199 --> 01:22:38,574

nothing they could write about later.

829

01:22:39,741 --> 01:22:42,699

After 10 months, we release.


69/102

830

01:22:43,449 --> 01:22:44,657

Suddenly.

831

01:22:45,324 --> 01:22:47,032That guy won't cause us any more trouble.

832

01:22:47,157 --> 01:22:48,699

Know what the best part is?

833

01:22:48,824 --> 01:22:52,366

Most type 4s we've processed in this way

83401:22:53,199 --> 01:22:56,116

never write anything again! Or paint anything,

835

01:22:56,157 --> 01:22:58,782

or whatever artists do...

836

01:22:59,324 --> 01:23:02,616

And that without any use of force...

837

01:23:03,199 --> 01:23:04,616

Just like that! Kind of...

838

01:23:05,407 --> 01:23:06,741

like a present.

839

01:23:08,366 --> 01:23:11,449

What brings you here?

Developments with Dreyman?

840

01:23:11,991 --> 01:23:14,741

That's why I'm here.

841

01:23:15,657 --> 01:23:17,949

I think the time has come...

842

01:23:18,824 --> 01:23:19,824


70/102

For what?

843

01:23:20,699 --> 01:23:23,866

For us to slim down the operation.

844

01:23:25,074 --> 01:23:27,032

I don't want to run day and night shifts

845

01:23:27,116 --> 01:23:30,199

for such an uncertain case.

846

01:23:30,241 --> 01:23:31,741

Uncertain, eh?

847

01:23:32,824 --> 01:23:35,407

You don't think we'll find anything

848

01:23:35,491 --> 01:23:36,616

for the Minister?

849

01:23:36,699 --> 01:23:39,407Maybe if we're more flexible...

850

01:23:39,991 --> 01:23:43,491

If we watch 'Lazlo' outside his own four walls.

851

01:23:47,157 --> 01:23:49,241

Shall I give the case to Udo?

852

01:23:49,532 --> 01:23:52,241

I'd like to continue it myself.

853

01:23:53,532 --> 01:23:54,574

Why?

854

01:23:55,407 --> 01:23:57,324

It could produce results.

855


71/102

01:23:58,616 --> 01:24:01,116

I just need to plan more flexibly,

856

01:24:02,116 --> 01:24:06,407

when I come and go, days and nights...

857

01:24:07,074 --> 01:24:09,407

Maybe he's up to something outside.

858

01:24:13,991 --> 01:24:16,366

Something doesn't feel right here.

859

01:24:19,782 --> 01:24:21,574There's something you're hiding.

860

01:24:30,116 --> 01:24:32,616

Alright, I'll take Udo off the case.

861

01:24:33,616 --> 01:24:36,324

I can use him for this church case.

86201:24:37,032 --> 01:24:38,991

Give me a request in writing.

863

01:24:39,282 --> 01:24:41,782

Write as a reason:"Lack of suspicious acts."

864

01:24:47,032 --> 01:24:48,907

And, Wiesler!

865

01:24:51,782 --> 01:24:52,740

A piece of advice for you:

866

01:24:53,824 --> 01:24:55,199

We're not at school anymore.

867

01:24:55,699 --> 01:24:57,532

Projects aren't about grades,


72/102

868

01:24:57,532 --> 01:24:59,699

but success.

869

01:25:15,990 --> 01:25:18,865"The state statistics office

870

01:25:18,907 --> 01:25:21,157

counts everything, knows everything.

871

01:25:21,657 --> 01:25:24,199

How many shoes I buy a year: 2.3.

87201:25:24,699 --> 01:25:26,907

How many books I read a year: 3.2.

873

01:25:27,365 --> 01:25:35,074

And how many pupils graduate

with straight A's every year: 6347."

874

01:25:43,907 --> 01:26:01,157

"5 p.m. Lazlo reads the first act ofhis anniversary play to Hauser and Wallner."

875

01:26:35,157 --> 01:26:40,824

DENTAL PRACTICE

876

01:27:45,824 --> 01:27:47,949

We're not writing a play, Christa.

877

01:27:48,032 --> 01:27:49,324

You don't have to tell me.

878

01:27:50,115 --> 01:27:52,699

But I want to. It's a text...

879

01:27:52,782 --> 01:27:54,699

Don't tell me.

880


73/102

01:27:55,824 --> 01:27:58,865

Maybe I am as unreliable as your friends say.

881

01:28:01,282 --> 01:28:03,074

But I... I'm with you now...

882

01:28:04,282 --> 01:28:06,115

No matter what.

883

01:28:41,490 --> 01:28:45,240

Minister Riesenhuber, author of the report,

884

01:28:45,282 --> 01:28:49,782said there is no quick fix

for saving damaged forests.

885

01:28:50,448 --> 01:28:52,698

East-West German relations under strain.

886

01:28:53,282 --> 01:28:56,198

'Spiegel' magazine today published

887

01:28:56,240 --> 01:28:58,740

a text by an unnamed East German author

888

01:28:58,782 --> 01:29:03,157

about suicide in the German Democratic Republic.

889

01:29:03,990 --> 01:29:07,573

This follows a series of suicides by prominent

890

01:29:07,698 --> 01:29:10,615

East-Berlin artists, the latest being Albert Jerska.

891

01:29:11,157 --> 01:29:14,282

After being blacklisted for 7 years,

892

01:29:14,365 --> 01:29:17,282

Jerska committed suicide on January 5th.


74/102

893

01:29:17,407 --> 01:29:22,323

In 1977, the GDR ceased publishing

any data relating to suicides.

894

01:29:22,532 --> 01:29:26,323

That year, Hungary was the only country

in Europe with a higher suicide rate.

895

01:29:27,657 --> 01:29:29,282

Yes, Sir...

896

01:29:31,240 --> 01:29:32,490But we...

897

01:29:33,823 --> 01:29:36,407

General, our man at the 'Spiegel'

898

01:29:36,490 --> 01:29:38,990

got us a photostat of the original.

89901:29:39,282 --> 01:29:41,948

Congratulations! So who wrote it?

900

01:29:42,032 --> 01:29:45,032

He doesn't know, but using the typeface, we'll...

901

01:29:45,157 --> 01:29:47,573

You're hopeless! Get me names!

902

01:29:47,907 --> 01:29:50,532

I will, as soon as we get the results.

903

01:29:50,532 --> 01:29:52,823

If not, you'll be put against the wall.

904

01:30:00,282 --> 01:30:02,323

Andrea, where's the graphologist?


75/102

905

01:30:02,865 --> 01:30:06,782

Thus I conclude that it is a domestic

typewriter produced for export,

90601:30:06,823 --> 01:30:09,490

most likely a 'Kolibri' travel model,

907

01:30:09,615 --> 01:30:13,782

made by the VEB Groma.

908

01:30:13,782 --> 01:30:16,448

If the ink were black, I could be more precise.

909

01:30:18,573 --> 01:30:19,782

Who owns such a typewriter?

910

01:30:20,115 --> 01:30:22,323

There are none registered in the GDR.

911

01:30:22,782 --> 01:30:25,323

What does that mean?What does Hauser use?

912

01:30:25,407 --> 01:30:29,698

Paul Hauser uses a 'Valentino' typewriter,

made by Olivetti.

913

01:30:29,948 --> 01:30:34,282

- That model has a more horizontal...

- Yes, yes! And Wallner?

914

01:30:36,323 --> 01:30:38,740

He writes on an Optima 'Elite'.

915

01:30:40,740 --> 01:30:42,073

Georg Dreyman?

916

01:30:42,115 --> 01:30:44,740

He writes his first drafts by hand,


76/102

917

01:30:44,823 --> 01:30:47,823

then types them up

on a Wanderer 'Torpedo'.

918

01:30:47,865 --> 01:30:49,532

He's never used anything else.

919

01:30:52,823 --> 01:30:56,073

How big is this 'Kolibri' typewriter?

920

01:30:56,115 --> 01:30:59,240

It's one of the smallest available:

921

01:30:59,365 --> 01:31:03,323

19.5cm x 99cm x 19.55cm.

922

01:31:04,782 --> 01:31:06,865

So it's as easy to smuggle as a book.

923

01:31:10,157 --> 01:31:11,948Thank you. You may go.

924

01:31:16,282 --> 01:31:17,448

Goodbye, comrade.

925

01:31:23,365 --> 01:31:27,198

"The Secret Suicide Statistics"

926

01:31:29,907 --> 01:31:32,407

Andrea, put me through to Wiesler.

927

01:31:33,073 --> 01:31:44,323

"4 p.m. The group is exhausted

from so much writing."

928

01:31:56,073 --> 01:31:58,948

- Yes?

- Have you heard about this article?


77/102

929

01:31:59,573 --> 01:32:02,448

- In the 'Spiegel'? Yes.

- How so?

930

01:32:03,990 --> 01:32:06,948

Hauser called Dreyman

and told him about it.

931

01:32:08,073 --> 01:32:12,323

Wiesler, this is very important.

Both for my career and for yours.

93201:32:13,365 --> 01:32:17,865

Did he mention who may be behind it?

Or do you have any ideas?

933

01:32:18,865 --> 01:32:22,865

I don't think he mentioned anything.

No... nothing at all.

934

01:32:25,573 --> 01:32:31,365A 'Spiegel' editor crossed the border

using a false name on the 27th,

935

01:32:31,531 --> 01:32:34,448

and spent four hours here.

936

01:32:34,531 --> 01:32:38,198

Dept. VI followed him to Prenzlauer Berg,

then lost his trail.

937

01:32:39,031 --> 01:32:41,323

Did he have contact with Dreyman?

938

01:32:42,365 --> 01:32:45,740

- Wouldn't I have noted it in the report?

- Yes, of course.

939

01:32:47,115 --> 01:32:49,323


78/102

But I smell a writer behind this text.

940

01:32:49,406 --> 01:32:51,490

I'd be astonished if I'm wrong.

941

01:32:52,198 --> 01:32:54,115

So keep your ears open!

942

01:33:01,198 --> 01:33:02,490

Shit!

943

01:33:18,990 --> 01:33:20,448

Get in.

944

01:33:34,698 --> 01:33:39,115

If one of your staff deceives you,

you punish him, right?

945

01:33:39,198 --> 01:33:40,906

Sure, sure!

94601:33:41,281 --> 01:33:44,656

Even a woman? Right?

947

01:33:44,865 --> 01:33:46,031

But of course!

948

01:33:47,781 --> 01:33:52,365

Isn't everyone who serves a great man

part of his staff?

949

01:33:53,073 --> 01:33:54,240

You could see it like that...

950

01:33:55,781 --> 01:33:57,573

Indeed, you'd have to see it like that.

951

01:33:59,990 --> 01:34:05,115

This is where she gets her illegal medication.


79/102

Christa-Maria Sieland.

952

01:34:06,615 --> 01:34:09,573

You should know this, it's your department.

953

01:34:11,240 --> 01:34:14,281

It's up to you whether you ruin her or not,

954

01:34:15,698 --> 01:34:19,156

but I never want to see her

on a German stage again.

955

01:34:22,990 --> 01:34:24,740Now get out.

956

01:34:31,448 --> 01:34:32,698

Shut the door!

957

01:34:34,448 --> 01:34:38,156

Ms. Sieland? Please follow us.

We have some questions.

958

01:34:41,448 --> 01:34:42,740

Come along.

959

01:35:02,531 --> 01:35:03,365

So...

960

01:35:05,406 --> 01:35:08,489

Comrade Sieland, a beautiful career you had, hm?

961

01:35:10,781 --> 01:35:12,656

A pity really. You were good.

962

01:35:13,573 --> 01:35:14,948

You were very good indeed.

963

01:35:16,614 --> 01:35:18,656

Just too short-lived.


80/102

964

01:35:19,573 --> 01:35:21,114

Do have a seat.

96501:35:28,823 --> 01:35:32,614

What do actors do when they can't act anymore?

966

01:35:36,739 --> 01:35:39,073

Please...

967

01:35:40,406 --> 01:35:43,864

Isn't there anything I can do for you?

968

01:35:45,323 --> 01:35:50,906

- For... State Security?

- It's a little late for that.

969

01:35:52,531 --> 01:35:54,739

I know nearly all our artists.

970

01:35:54,781 --> 01:35:56,614I could find out a lot.

971

01:35:56,698 --> 01:36:00,114

I believe you.

But it wo

The Lives of Others Subtitles

Documents

Transcript of The Lives of Others Subtitles