In the West, corrupt police officials are those who use their job to advance themselves professionally and financially, taking money to turn a blind eye. In the "Communist" era, the truly corrupt official was one who succumbed to conscience, refusing to break souls and apply their remains like decals to a ploughshare.
The Lives of Others is the story of an East German Stasis officer and interrogation expert assigned to monitor the life of an East German playwright and his actor girlfriend. The time is the early 1980s, well before Glasnost and the Wall coming down, and our officer is about to learn that the gridded system of totalitarian rule is no match for the tendrils of love and art.
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