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5 The Lives of Others - Wiesler as a ruthless and efficient Stasi operator

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What it is

A clip from the film The Lives of Others showing Wiesler as a ruthless, efficient Stasi interrogator who uses a recorded interrogation to train new officers. HN uses other scenes from the same film as well.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it, and the scent-sample scene in the film, in threads about surveillance and Stasi methods such as smell registers.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “Have a look at this scene from the fantastic film”

    Scent jar scene from The Lives of Others

    Tomte, 2019-11 · Recommendation · in “DNA database that found Golden State Killer is potential national security leak”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: the lives of others, stasi, east germany, surveillance, film clip

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