Totalitarianism on Screen
From its creation in 1950, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the German Democratic Republic''s Ministry for State Security closely monitored its nation''s citizens. Known as the Staatssicherheit or Stasi, this organization was regarded as one of the most repressive intelligence agencies in the world. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck''s 2006 film The Lives of Others ( Das Leben der Anderen) ...
From its creation in 1950, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the German Democratic Republic''s Ministry for State Security closely monitored its nation''s citizens. Known as the Staatssicherheit or Stasi, this organization was regarded as one of the most repressive intelligence agencies in the world. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck''s 2006 film The Lives of Others ( Das Leben der Anderen) ...