The Lives of Others

One hundred thousand employees, two hundred thousand informants. Together they are the shield and sword of the party, the famous Stasi. Their method is suspicion. The life of others is their profession. The popular writer and playwright Georg Dreimann would have lived to the end of his days, caressed by the attention of grateful readers and absolutely uninteresting to the intelligence services, if not for his affair with a famous theater actress. Too famous to go unnoticed by an influential official from the Central Committee. This is how Stasi specialists appear in Draiman’s life.