Monmouth University Provost Film Series presents "The Lives of Others" Rated R. Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film for 2007. Panelists: Provost Thomas S. Pearson and Dr. Frederick McKitrick
In the early 1980s, the successful dramatist Georg Dreyman and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland, a popular actress, are big intellectual stars in the former socialist state of East Germany, although they secretly don't always think according to the party line. One day, the Minister of Culture becomes interested in Christa, so the secret service agent Wiesler is instructed to observe and sound out the couple, but their life fascinates him more and more.
