The Lives of Others

German drama about the East Berlin Stasi in the mid-80's. Very poignant, moving film about secrecy, identity, and the slippery moral ground of state control. I really liked this one, though I had a bit of a problem with the protagonist's too-quick conversion from tough hard-liner to convinced realist to active humanist. Also questioned the need for a certain character to die and how that death serves the story.