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Back in 2006, German cinema
scored something of a breakout
global hit with Florian Henckel
von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of
Others, which followed the tra-
vails of a group of disgruntled,
pro-western artists in communist
era East Germany. At the time I
NJ STAGE - ISSUE 54
by Eric Hillis
couldn’t help view the protago-
nists of Von Donnersmarck’s
drama as the sort of people who
would be just as discontented
with their lot if they found them-
selves living in the capitalist
west. The grass is always green-
er on the other side.
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