The Lives of Others
Movie • 2006 • Drama
ReportA tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the system.
This movie contains 7 potentially triggering events.
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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The whole movie is about a Stasi officer who is spying on a couple who are under suspicion by the East German government. They are constantly being listened to, watched, and occasionally followed.
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Addiction
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ApolloAmongOthers
a character uses prescription medicine as drugs. consumption is only seen once, but it is mentioned several times throughout the film and the character is shown buying these pills.
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Assault
Is someone restrained?
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Christa is confined to a moving vehicle with Hempf whilst he sexually assaults her
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ApolloAmongOthers
the movie shows the sexual assault happening beforehand (groping etc.) and shows the rapist removing his underwear. the scene cuts after that.
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Bodily Harm
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Is there a hanging?
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It's mentioned that a character hangs himself but this is not shown on screen.
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Is someone tortured?
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At the very beginning a prisoner is interrogated while severely sleep deprived as a torture method. There are other interrogation scenes where threats are made to get prisoners to comply, but there are no other depictions of torture.
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Family
Does someone cheat?
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A woman who is in a relationship is coerced into sex with a government official who threatens her career. She is clearly very unwilling and the power differential between them means there is no freely given consent, so it is not cheating.
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Fear
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Gross
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Mental Health
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Suicide is an important theme. A friend of a main character dies by suicide - not shown, but there is a scene at his funeral. A main character then publishes an article about the high suicide rate under the current government and there's a lot of discussion of this article. Later, near the end, another major character dies by suicide (by walking into traffic - this is shown onscreen).
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Pregnancy
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Sex
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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It really depends on how you take the ending
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Someone deliberately walks into the road, gets hit by a truck, and dies a minute later. The scene is fairly graphic.
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ApolloAmongOthers
a character gets hit by a car and is shown injured and covered in blood
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