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...Germany’s citizens through a vast system of spies and security controls. With the help of the Stasi secret police forces, the GDR monitors the country for potential disloyalty. “The Lives of Others” captures human compassion at its most sophisticated level, as Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch), a famous East German writer, is placed under 24-hour watch, with Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe) as the lead spy. But in hopes of uncovering Dreyman’s disloyalties, the snitch finds his own. Wiesler’s intimate viewing into the literal...
...Stasi--East Germany's internal spy network--is in full fester, keeping watch on artists and political dissidents, forcing many into obeisance or jail, silence or suicide. Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mhe), a mousy Stasi captain, plants bugs in the home of chic playwright Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and his actress girlfriend Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck). Wiesler and his coarser superiors have motives as complex as they are nasty: to please a party boss, to tease out scenarios of voyeuristic lust and, well, because they can. Wiesler has another reason to spy and pry: he's good...
...sudden idea. Kehlmann has an overabundant imagination, but he's also a thorough researcher, which makes this an engrossing, enjoyable mix of fact and fiction. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, Measuring the World manages to be both clever and entertaining, which is a science unto itself. - By Stephanie Kirchner 10. Georg Gerster, The Past from Above...
...prism is "a medium that distorts, slants, or colors whatever is viewed through it." Prism also happens to be the title of one of the works in the show-Imants Tillers' 1986 painting, from a private collection in Sydney. Assembled on 165 canvas boards and referencing both Expressionist Georg Baselitz's figure of a German soldier and Timmy Payungka Japangardi's Kangaroo and Shield People Dreaming, this postmodern picture puzzle announces the exhibition's intriguing but not wholly convincing contention-that multicultural voices and Aboriginal culture have colonized Australian art. "That's really the message we have-lots of cultural...
...Georg Herold’s “Portrait” tempts those with a sophisticated palate and who pine for something they won’t find in the dining halls. Caviar dots the work’s surface, its precious little lumps making a social statement as they compose the faintest outline of a face...