"The Lives Of Others" is a precise and gripping snapshot of the omni-present and much feared secret service of communist East Germany, the Stasi.
A family settles into their new vacation home, which just so happens to be the next stop for a pair of young, articulate, white-gloved serial killers on an excursion through the neighborhood.
Michael Haneke's masterful adaptation of Kafka's seminal novel is a chilling existential enquiry into alienation available here for the first time as a stand-alone DVD. A land surveyor is summoned to a remote village by the local government housed in 'The Castle'. But when he arrives he is unable to persuade the locals of his legitimacy and finds himself in an absurd spiral of provincial bureaucracy that soon becomes a surreal all-encompassing nightmare.
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