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From http://german.about.com/od/dvdvideo/fr/dasleben.htm

Life in East Germany - The Way It Was
Review by Hyde Flippo

Unlike other recent films portraying life in East Germany (Good Bye Lenin!, Sonnenallee), Das Leben der Anderen does not sugar-coat life in East Germany. It dramatizes the true cost that citizens of the German Democratic Republic had to pay for living in their communist dictatorship. We learn how much time and effort the Stasi (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, "secret police") spent on spying on East German citizens — and how this impacted both the targets and the spies.

Read the full review at http://german.about.com/od/dvdvideo/fr/dasleben.htm .

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