The Good Germans
Wie geht es Ihnen? As the Germans say. Today I'm here to talk about 2 German-language films, both Oscar winners, that are superb and well worth the effort of subtitles.
The German Democratic Republic, as East Germany liked to style itself, met its demise in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall, but I imagine that its ghosts still haunt its streets and its survivors. In The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen), we get a look at life in the GDR and the corrosive effects...