The ART@Neapolis team invites to you the screening of the movie “The Lives of Others” (Das Leben der Anderen, German production) that has won an Oscar award for Best Foreign Language Film (2007).
Date: 22/02/2023
Time: 18.00
Venue: Neapolis University Pafos Cafeteria
The movie takes place in the East Communist Germany a few years before the collapse of the Berlin Wall. The main character, a dedicated police officer of the East Germany secret police (Stasi), is watching a playwright and his lover, an actress. During the surveillance, the secret agent – a stern, obedient, communist ideologist, with no other interests in life – starts doubting for the first time the communist regime and its benefit to the society. He has an awakening experience which he finally begins to clearly see the truth of all communist regimes: the ideologist, self-appointed defenders of the people, inevitably end up as their dictators.
Before the movie screening, Lecturers Mersilia Anastasiadou, Eleni Gavriil and Kyriakos Iakovides, will make a brief introduction and will outline the characteristics of the Cold War era, the sepsis of communist regimes of Eastern Europe and the right to privacy. The movie will be followed by a discussion with the audience, which will also include: Marios Argyrides, Head of the department of Psychology, Loukia Taxitari, Lecturer in the department of Psychology, Katerina Papazacharia, Lecturer in the department of History, Politics and International Studies and Aphrodite Koutroumpeli, Special Teaching Staff in the department of History, Politics and International Studies.
