Dedicated to all the artists… no art, however small or unappreciated, is a small thing.
Firstly, what to expect from this review. It is not a professional review, I will do my best to steer away from any technical aspect of the movie. What I am writing here, is the chain of thoughts that crowded my brain as I was watching this movie.
For those interested, here is the link to the movie on IMDB.
Now, cutting to the movie. I read a review about it in a new paper, had just about 100-110 words, they were enough to make me desperate to watch this movie.
Movie is set in an era just before reunion of Germany, yes, the even of bringing down of “Berlin wall”. Movie focuses on the plight of Theater rather artists in general. Movie is a show case of a good screenwriter/poet Georg Dreyman and his wife Christa-Maria (an actress).
In the movie we see the influence the ministry had over artists. How stasi (German secret police. wiki entry) were used to monitor everyone they suspected.
Georg is a politically correct man, simple and true to his character, at heart he is but a poet! His wife loves him a lot, but equally loves her career, she is constantly abused by a corrupt minister Hempf. Minister Hempf leads the ministry of arts (or something), he essentially decides who works and who does not. There is a Stasi officer Weisler, very strict and thorough, a role model to all the Stasi! Then there is his superior who went to college with him, he is at heart a politician.
So, characters have been introduced… The one thing movie really touched me was the story… How a politically correct man struggles to live there… the sacrifices he makes… Weisler is trusted with the responsibility to monitor him and come up with something to nail this Dreyman.
This is all I can come to get myself to right… no amount of words could let the world know how beautiful this movie is! It is full of so many heart touching moments… like, Dreyman playing “Sonata of good men” when he hears that Jerska is dead… he exclaims… “who, after listening to this, can still be a bad man?”.
Movie moves on, never letting you off… at no point of time did I feel that the movie is losing pace. Through out my watching it, I felt involved, I stopped watching it because it was a movie, I stopped watching it for the entertainment, I watched it, cause I wanted to be there with those ppl, I wanted to share their grief (so wonderfully presented in the movie), I wanted to kick the minister Hempf in the n*ts…
Art is very essential to us… nothing will ever captivate us more, nothing will ever make a difference in our life as much as art has… hats off to these people…
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