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Last night I had the chance to watch again The Live of Others. It’s a truly splendid movie, probably one of my all-time favourites. I could write about it for several pages but today I just wanted to point out the turning point of the movie. It’s a crucial moment where music decides the characters’ fates.

The film starts in East Germany in 1984 when Stasi Captain Wiesler is assigned to spy on playwright Georg Dreyman and his girlfriend, actress Christa-Maria Sieland. Wiesler is a very dedicated agent. Every night from the attic he listens to the couple’s every conversations in order to report any sympathy to the West.

Dreyman is a fervent socialist but disapproves of the treatment of dissidents. When his old friend Jerska commits suicide shortly after the beginning of the movie, Dreyman, stunned, goes straight for the piano and plays a sheet of music Jerska had given him for his birthday. The music is called “Sonata for a Good Man”. It’s a turning point for Wiesler, who, hidden in the attic is moved to tears by the music. From that moment on, he’s pulled into a spiral of false reports and lies to hide the couple’s real subversive activities.

The soundtrack and Sonata for a Good Man were composed by Gabriel Yared and Stephane Moucha.

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