"Stop, don't look forward." "Keep walking." "You should address him as 'sir' when you get in." "Come in." "Have a seat." "You may feel better if you put your hands under your legs." "Anything you would like to confess?" "I didn't do anything." "I don't know anything." "You didn't do anything?" "You don't know anything?" "You thought the National Security Agency would put people in prison at random?" "No, I didn't." "Even if it's true that you didn't do anything, we could still arrest you on the ground of your skepticism on our government." "Let me help you with your memory:" "Your friend and neighbor, specifically, filed to the Federal Republic on September 28th." "We have evidence that it was you who helped him with fleeing the country." "I know nothing about it." "He didn't tell me his plan." "I thought he was flying for business." "Please detail what you have done on September 28th then." " They've written it down." " I want to hear it again." "I took the kids to the park for a walk, and ran into Markechner, my classmate in high school, and we went to his place together, listening to music, talking, until it was very late." "You can call him and confirm it." "I can give you his number." "From this clip it's easy for you to find that he is trying to confront his own country with his arrogance." "It takes patience to play with him." "The next part is the interrogation, which lasts about 40 hours." "Let's move on." "I want to sleep." "Let me sleep, please." "Sleep?" "You need to trade for it with something." "Please explain again what you did on September 28th." "Please, let me sleep for just one hour" "Please state again what you did on that day." "Why does the interrogation have to be so long?" "I think this is inhumane." "An innocent man, having been questioned so long for something he didn't do, he should either be in a rage or suicidal, while a guilty person often refuse to talk, or start to cry, because he knows exactly why he is sitting there." "The best way to tell whether someone is guilty, is to question him until he admits everything." "We met Markechner in the park, then we went to his place together," "listened to the music and stayed up late." "I have his telephone number, you can give him a call and he'll tell you what I said was true." "Is there anything interesting to you in his answer?" "It's the same as what he said at the first time." "He hardly changed a word." "Because what really happened would not change no matter how you describe it." "But there is also the possibility that he was lying." "Because he might have practiced it in his mind for a thousand times." "But under coercion, he won't hold for long." "There are other techniques for hard rocks like him." "If you can tell us the name of the plane, you can go home to your wife tonight, if not, it's the prison that's waiting for you." "Is that what you want?" "What's the name of the plane?" "Who owns it?" " Resker." " Say it again, louder." "Risker." "It's Bernag Resker's plane." "Bernag Resker." "Silence!" "Silence!" "Listen." "Who knows what this sound is?" "This is for the trained dogs, a piece of cloth with the criminal's odor on it." "It comes from every interrogation, and will be kept in a bottle forever." "Wiretapping is a common technique used in almost every socialist country" "Please never forget it." "Have a nice day." "Good!" "It was really good." "Bro, we haven't hanged out for what, 20 years?" "And now you are a professor." "Good for you." "And I'm doing good too, of course." "What do you need?" "You think I want something from you?" " I'm inviting you to a play." " A play?" "I heard that the minister of arts will come too." "To show the administration's attitude to the artists, I think." "It starts at 7 tonight." "We'll talk about it." "The Lives of Others" "Minister Bruno Hempf is in the middle of the third row." "He used to be a nobody in the Ministry of Arts." "And he is not particularly interested in attending all these events." "Georg Dreyman, he is a poet." "He is as arrogant as some of my students." "Not only arrogant, but also one of the right-wing." "But he will lose his job soon." "We suspect that a few writers have been close to the Western Germany, and he is one of them." "The German Democratic Republic is the best country in the world." "It starts." "What's wrong, my dear child?" "Marta, what happened?" "Tell me!" "He left me, Otto." "Otto?" "How can you say that your husband is dead?" "No, sisters, please trust me." "He's dead already." "There is deep fear in his paintings." "I can see it, that terrifying love." "Why does this love feel so thorny?" "Elena, let's go." "How do you think?" "Are you interested?" "I'll watch him." "Watch him?" "This is totally different from teaching." " We can use the best wiretappers." " You have to risk your career." "If you lose, you are shark meat." "I'll be downstairs for a second." "We have a lot to do at this moment, including a series of bans on the culture." "Which party do you belong to?" "I think it doesn't matter, Mr. minister." "What matters is one's patriotism." "How much do you know about this man?" "Goerg Dreyman" "Maybe..." "Maybe what?" "Maybe this job is not as noble as it seems." "It's such a pity that you are not a secret agent." "I hope you could make a perfect plan for this one." "We can talk about it later." "They have plenty of expectations on you." "But this artist, he hides well." "It'll be tricky." "Next Thursday all those felons will attend a party at Dreyman's, for instance, reactionist writer Houser and a few others." "You should plan everything carefully beforehand, using all your old tricks, like wiretapping." "Just keep an eye on his apartment, don't try to follow him, and don't report before you have gathered all the evidence." "Once caught by us, he's dead." "Good night, Mr. minister." "What is he staring at us?" "What does he want?" "Is he one of your fans?" "Excuse me." "Sorry for the interruption, but I would like to say that it was a fantastic night for the art society." "There is a famous quote:" ""A poet is an engineer in the Eden."" "And Goerg Dreyman is one of our best engineers in Democratic Republic." " What does he want?" " Be quiet and listen, Houser." "I can't help giving him my compliment again:" "Dreyman is a shining star among the artists in Democratic Republic." "Next I wish Mrs. Dreyman's beauty and acting skills will both grow." " Now I see what all this is about." " Stay with me, please." "Please continue with the music." "May I?" " I love your plays." " Thank you very much." "And I'm very interested in you." "Yes, I mean it." "Engineer in the Eden?" "Do you really understand what it means?" "Of course I do." "I did throw a tons of bans on cultural activities, but Houser, I'm still crazy about arts." "The government will protect its artists, but in the meantime, dear Dreyman, they have to repay their government." "I'll dance with someone else if politics is your only topic." " I'm ready." " Too late, it's too late." " I have been following your plays." " Yes, following is what you do, isn't it?" " Houser!" " That was a long time ago." "Schweiber." "You are busy these days, aren't you?" "Your directing is not as good as in the past." "Let's talk about it some other time." "Please allow me to disagree." "You don't have to like my plays, but I do love this country." "Could you please leave politics aside when you watch them?" "It's impossible for everyone to share the same faith," "but if one is truly loyal to his faith in socialism, he won't change his mind no matter what kind of plays he watches." " This is not something that can be banned." " Would you like to have a try then?" "I can certainly help you get an idea of what a ban is like if you don't believe it." "Okay, let me put it this way:" "If my work is good to the point of making you nervous, then it worths it, even if it's banned." " I think you should consider my advice." " I don't need it." "Just as you said, I believe that a good man's love and faith won't be changed by one play." "Dreyman, you can write whatever you want, and people's mind won't be changed so easily." " Have you decided on what to do?" " People listen to their conscience, not the nature of their jobs." " People should never lose hope." " Of course, you can only become well off when you have hope." "Sometimes hope can be the only thing that keeps people alive." "Tomorrow we'll make sure everything works fine technically." "Most importantly, there can't be any dead zone for our device in his house." "It is here?" "Good night." "You guys are good, pals." "20 minutes." "Mrs. Meineke, if you tell anyone, you won't see your family again for the rest of your life." "Understood?" "yes." "Make a note on Mrs. Meineke's records." "Happy Thursday." "How time flies!" "It's great to see you again." " How are you doing?" " Not too bad." " They don't make noise like this all the time." " I know, only on Thursdays." "Yeah." " I miss the past." " This doesn't sound like a good beginning." " I've had this uneasy feeling since last night's premiere." " Good for you." "It keeps you energetic." "I can't stand this country any more." "There are no human rights, nor freedom of speech." "This whole system drives me mad." "But on the other hands, it's the same system that inspires us to write, to write about how people live in this country, real lives." "And that's real masterpiece, coming from our conscience." "But I really hate it like this, Dreyman." "I hope I could be a writer again in my next life." "What would you do about this play if you are the director?" "There are so many constraints, you can't dig in as much as you want." "Being alive is so meaningless." "Albert, I think I'm in trouble." "It's the minister in charge of the arts, minister Hempf." "He threatened to ban my plays." "Would it be terrible?" "I don't know what a ban is like." "Really?" "It's great." "The guests will come soon." "We can have a drink after they leave." "But there are still a lot of problems." "Georg, you have to be strong." "I need you," " no matter what's gonna happen to you in the future." " You are my partner for my whole life." " You are mine too." " Then we still have 50 years." "Or maybe 40, right?" "I hope you didn't forget it." "You promised to tie up a Montblanc by yourself on your birthday." "I did, but I don't have one." "No more excuse." " Are you kidding?" " You said you didn't want books as presents anymore." "But I doubt you can do it yourself." "Of course I can." "I know how to do it from the day I was born." "Don't forget I'm gonna liberate our people on my own." "Then you have to fasten this one on your own first." "Those women!" "I really can't do this." "Mrs. Meineke, can you come here for a second?" "Could you please tie my neck tie for me?" "I'll thank you for the rest of my life." " Are you all right?" " Yes, I'm fine." "Done?" "Wonderful!" "It's perfect." "I'll just make it look more natural." "May I ask you to keep secret on this?" "It's a secret between us." "Nice!" "I really thought you wouldn't be able to do it." "When did you learn that?" "I learned everything when I was young." "Our first guest is here." "Our sweet little doorbell is broken again." "Get the door, will you?" "Okay, I will." " This is Our present." " Following your instruction," " "No books any more"." " Thank you." " Can I join you guys?" " Sure." "Long time no see." "I'll get some drinks." "What's going on?" "Why is he sitting there alone?" "He hardly talked to anyone." "He just sat there and read." "This is my present." " Did you just come here to read?" " It's the Brecht." "These people don't have the thrist for freedom, do they?" "They don't?" "Then why are you here?" "What can we do in this environment?" "People get used to everything around us." "Yes, they can now accept what used to be unbearable." "Changes are no longer anticipated." "You are my favorite director." "Hang on, we should talk." "Let me explain to you the background for the characters in this play." "Despair, yes, exactly." "But what should they do?" "The National Security can't gag everybody." " I don't think they can." " What the hell are you talking about?" "Houser!" "What's up?" "Schweiber, I'm really sorry." "My friend is a little drunk." "What's with you?" "Don't you know that he's working for the National Security now?" "No, Houser." "You don't know him well." "You are being idealistic, you know that?" "Since when have you been escaping the reality?" "They transformed you, all these people." "You are now used to your life under despotism." "If that's true, you don't even deserve to be alive." "Don't see me again until you want to end all this." " Some people still gave you books." " Was my request too impolite?" "Look at this fork." "Isn't it beautiful?" "That's for making salad." "No matter what it's for, it's beautiful." "Look at this." "I'll write with this pen." "It's from Thomas." "I wouldn't count on his taste for presents." "Some of these are pretty useful." " This is from Albert." " Then you are going to love it." ""Sonata from Good Men"" ""11:04pm: 'Lazlo' and CMS unpacked the presents." "We speculated that they had sex afterwards"" "You are late!" "I'm sorry." "Something happened just before I left home." "So I'm late for four minutes." "I apologize." "They've started doing that?" "These artists!" "What can't they do?" "I have to listen to this, how their sex lives are different from ordinary people." "See you tomorrow at 11am." "Albert Jerska, an old customer." "He's been banned to the core." "I knew they were close." "come on, let's go lunch." ""Volleyball game at 7pm tonight."" "I suggest we sit there." "No matter where we sit, socialism must let us eat." "There is one thing I want you to know, that is it was the Minister's car that sent Mrs. Dreyman home last night." "We don't know the details yet, but he didn't deny it when I talked to him last time." "Once you find anything between the minister and Mrs. Dreyman, just tell me, don't write it down." "What you are listening to not only determines my future, but yours too, if we do find something." "Why should we cover up for him?" "This is not our style." "Personal affairs can be powerful weapons for our rival parties." "He and us are all communists, You don't want disgrace your own party, do you?" "I have a new joke, it's like this:" "Erich (General Secretary) went into his office in the morning." "He opened the window, saw the sun, and said...what's wrong?" "Sorry, I'm just..." "I..." "It's all right, comrade." "It's okay to tell jokes about leaders of our country." "I can tell a ton of them myself." "Go on, please." "Okay." "Erich, our general secretary, he said to the sun: "Good morning, my dear sun."" ""Good morning, my dear sun." Is that what he said?" "And the sun answered:" ""Good morning."" "At noon he asked again:"Good day, my dear sun?"" "And the sun said:"Good day." After work in the evening, Erich greeted again:" ""Good evening, my dear sun." But the sun didn't answer this time." "So he asked once again:"Good evening, dear sun, what's up?"" "The sun said:"You bastard, don't 'What's up' me, I've been tolerant for a whole day!"" "Your name?" "ID number?" "Department?" "Me?" "My name is Stiller." "Adolph Stiller." "I'm in the First Informational Section." "You don't have to hear from me how much damage you just did to your own career, do you?" " Well..." "I just..." " You just what?" "This kind of jokes will blemish our party." "And you are working in the National Security Agency." "Why don't you just go to his office and tell the minister that joke?" "Yeah, it kills me!" "Good story, but needs work." "What's the difference between Erich and a telephone?" "Not at all." "You just grab and dial for both." " Where are you going?" " Home." " Night." "Get in the car!" "You didn't forget about our date on every Thursday, did you?" "Is your poet having his birthday again?" "Get in the car!" "come on!" "I believe you understand what's good for you." "So please think about it and weigh the options in your mind." "Maybe it is your coldness that makes me so crazy about you." "Are you out of your mind?" "If you want to get home early, don't fight." "I'll send you home early if you behave yourself." "You'd better see it with your own eyes." "I'm coming!" "Silly woman!" "See you next Thursday." "Let's go." "Are you asleep?" "Hold me, please." "How are you, sir?" "You are five minutes late again." "Good evening." "Eleventh Floor, the door on the right." "Open the door." " How did you get up here?" " I know your name." "I was able to get in just by telling your name, can you believe it?" "No, I can't." "How was it?" "Did you like it?" " Stay for the night." " I can't." "I have another customer." "I work on reservations." "It's 1:30 already, what kind of customer is that at this time?" "None of your business." "You can reserve for an hour longer next time." "See ya." "Georg, have you heard about Houser?" "No, what's about him?" "National Security took his passport, he can't go abroad to attend the workshop." "It's because he's too proud, you know?" "The Security finally had to do something." "A man who doesn't know how to protect himself." "He deserves it." "A writer should be more conscious about the reality." ""'Lazlo' supported the forbidance on Houser's travel abroad."" "Have you seen my anthology?" "The one I just finished writing." "Isn't it on your desk?" "This is weird." "I can't find it." "* Brecht * "Everyday in September the early fall was blue;" ""Those young upright trees reaching for the sky, like love they flourished and grew;" ""Above us floated the fair clear sky;" ""which a cotton-white cloud was walking through;" ""And with faith in your heart it shall never leave you."" " Yes?" " Georg?" "This is Vagner." "What's up?" "Have you heard?" "Jerska killed himself." "Georg?" "I'm sad too." "I've been thinking about the last conversation between Jerska and me." "I should listen to him and make some change." "If he could hear this song I'm playing, if he really can, he would know what I'm gonna do." "Do you really Work for the National Security Agency?" "Do you know what National Security Agency is for?" "Yes." "They are bad guys, they took my dad." "Did they?" "What's the name of your...?" "My what?" "Your ball." "What's the name of your ball?" "You are strange." "Why would people name their balls?" "Minister, this is my present for you," "The best wiretappers, and the top operators." " We can hear every sound in every corner." " You must find what we need from Dreyman." "Jerska killed himself, and these artists will do something." "It was good to see you." "You should work on this, we're gonna start watching Houser and others." "The Minister really wants to go for it now." "It's giving me headaches." " What's new with him and Mrs. Dreyman?" " If I didn't hear it wrong, they are going out tomorrow night." "Good, good." "But don't spend too much time on this love story." "We have our own business to mind." "Don't forget that." "I've been queasy tonight." "I don't want to stay home by myself, and I can't write anything." "After Jerska's death, I don't feel like writing anymore." "And I start to fear that you would leave me." "Don't be like a child." " I have to go out tonight anyway." " Where?" "An old schoolmate is coming," " And we are gonna..." " You are not lying to me, are you?" " Is that true?" " What do you mean?" "I know everything." "I know where you are going." "And I beg you not to." "You don't have to do this." "You don't have to." "I know you are doing this for me, and for acting, which you can never give up." "Trust me," "Christa Maria," "You are a great artist, you always are." "I know it." "And your audience know it too." "There is no need for you to please anyone." "Don't go." "Don't go to him." "No, I don't need to do this." "I did everything in vain." "But what about you?" "Don't you need it?" "Do you want to give up your freedom?" "You can live in your writing, you can still write whatever in your mind." "Then why didn't you?" "Because you know they will destroy you." "People can't just live on faith." "What can we do?" "What should we do?" "Do you want to be the next Jerska?" "I don't." "So I have to go now." "You're making a point." "I can't make you change your mind." "But I beg you, don't go." "Cherish yourself." "I'm here, sir." "What were you listening to?" "You were so concentrated." "Okay, it's my turn." "I can't take the blame to make you work overtime." "Where are you going?" "To see one of my old schoolmates." "I'll write down the details." "You shall see them tomorrow morning." "Don't worry." "Good night." "There are plenty of seats inside." "Just myself." "Give me a cup of vodka." "Okay." "Can you play "The Smile" instead?" "Wine, please." "How do you do, madam?" "Please don't bother me." "Leave me alone." "Mrs. Sieland." "Do we know each other?" "You don't know me, but I know you well." "People love you, because you are real." " Actresses can't be real." " But you are." "I've seen you on stage, and you were just yourself," "like who you are now." "You think you know who I am?" "I'm one of your audience." " I have to go." " Where are you going?" "I'm going to see an old schoolmate of mine." "Really?" "You become a different person when you're lying." " Do I?" " Yes." "Am I still the Christa Maria you know?" "Would you leave someone who is even more important than your own life?" "Would you give away your body for art?" "Give away your body for art?" "That's not a good deal." "You are the greatest actress I've ever seen." "Don't you think so?" "You are a very good man." ""They brawled about whether Mrs. Dreyman should go and see her schoolmate," ""and she went at last." "'Lazlo' stayed at home in bitterness." ""About 20 minutes later, Mrs. Dreyman came back," ""suprisingly, not only for 'Lazlo', but for me too." ""He was very happy." "And then the two of them made love." ""She told him she would never leave him again." "He said:"Now I have my inspirations back."" ""It is guessed that we will have a new play soon." ""Due to all that happened last week, he's been behind on his script." ""Why did she change so suddenly?" ""I can tell that she's even more in love with 'Lazlo' now." ""The flame of love lights up again."" "Sir, I..." "They were asleep, so I also..." "Nice report." "You think so?" "I've never been so sad in my life." "Me neither." "Never was a regime similar to socialism in the history." "The Central keeps an eye on everything about everybody's life." "On average, a man buys 2.3 pairs of shoes each year, reads 3.2 books." "And in each year there are 6,743 students graduating with straight As." "But there is one statistics that goes unpublished, which might have been calculated into the natural deaths." "If you call the National Security Agency and ask them," "How many people kill themselves for being suspected as related to the Western Germany, they won't tell you a word, and they'll write down your name carefully." "This is all for the country's safety." "All those dead people, are for the country's safety and well being." "German Democratic Republic has stopped counting the number of suicides since 1977." "Suicides as we know, they were already for the best." "Because they couldn't stand their lives like that, without bleeding, without passion." "Death was all they could choose." "Death was their only hope." "Since 9 years ago when we stopped to count suicides, only one country in Europe has higher death counts than Eastern Germany:" "Hungary." "And then we all head for the same destination: socialism." "Among all these people the most distinguished was Jerska, a great director." "What I'm writing today is the story about him." " I've laid down the framework for my script." " We should believe in the statistics from National Security." "My apartment is not sound-proof." "Let's play some music for them." "How about in my place?" ""3pm, Chrenmal Park"" "It's okay now." " Look, there's a stalker." " Invite him over."