Hi to everybody...I recorded a film last night on Sky Premiere called 'The Lives of Others' it was the debut of writer-director Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck and came out in 2006. It was a slow burn expose of the work of the Stasi in East Germany before the Wall fell and the changing of an ardent Stasi operative into a sympathiser as he listened to the lives of a well known dramatist and his lover, a famous actress on the East German stage...The sense of repression was painful and, as the film progressed, the sense of despair and bleakness of life there became more and more clear...it's not a happy film by any means but it's an excellent study of a man who gradually gets drawn into the lives of the people is watching, and, eventually...well, I won't tell you any more because it will spoil it if you do happen to decide to record it for yourselves....it's on each night this week and is the last film showing on Sky Premiere most nights, with one showing around nine....it's well worth watching because it draws you in even if you don't want to go where it's taking you...Hollywood made a similar film called 'The Conversation' in 1974 with Gene Hackman playing the operative, and I would say the writer/director of 'The Lives of Others' was extremely influenced by it....
Hope you get a chance to see it...