Continuity mistake: When Grubitz talks to Wiesler in the cafe, the amount of beer in their glasses keeps changing.
The Lives of Others (2006)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Starring: Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Muhe
A few years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Georg Dreyman talks with former Minister Hempf at a theater and asks: "Why wasn't I placed under surveillance?" Hempf tells him that he was under surveillance. Dreyman takes a look at the Stasi's (East Germany's secret police) reports on him and notices that some of the surveillance reports (the ones written by Wiesler) are inaccurate. In one of the reports, he notices a red ink stain (Dreyman was using red ink with that typewriter): which indicates that someone (Wiesler) had the typewriter being searched for by the Stasi. Dreyman deduces that on the day the Stasi searched his house, whoever wrote the report, removed the typewriter from the secret compartment, so that Dreyman wouldn't be interrogated by the Stasi. Dreyman reads the code name (HGW XX/7) of the Stasi agent who wrote the report and asks for the name. 2 years later, a book written by Dreyman called Sonata for a Good Man, is published. Wiesler buys a copy of the book and notices that it's dedicated: "To HGW XX/7, with gratitude..."
Alex
More mistakes in The Lives of Others
Georg Dreyman: You are a great artist. I know that, and your audience knows it, too. You don't need him. You don't need him. Stay here. Don't go to him.
Christa-Maria Sieland: No? I don't need him? Don't I need this whole system? What about you? Then you don't need it either, or need it even less. But you get in bed with them, too. Why do you do it? Because they can destroy you too, despite your talent and your faith. Because they decide what we play, who is to act, and who can direct.
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