Dealing with the GDR past in today's Germany: The Lives of Others: I. Stasiploitation - Why not? The scriptwriter's historical creativity in The Lives of Others

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The Lives of Others can be seen as a classical case of an "exploitation film", both artistically and commercially. While this does not mar its merits as a moving drama about love, guilt, and redemption, it comes at the price of a historical "creativity" of a peculiar kind, informed by unreconstructed masculinity and a proverbial German yearning for reconciliation.

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)557-566
Number of pages10
JournalGerman Studies Review
Volume31
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2008
Peer-reviewedYes

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