Actual Anarchy Podcast

We return to Castle Wolfenstein to discuss a film that depicts events that we once thought could never happen in the US. Jon Reed returns to the show to talk about the Oscar-winning foreign-language film, “The Lives of Others,” a movie about a world in which there is no justice.In 1983 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe), doubting that a famous playwright (Sebastian Koch) is loyal to the Communist Party, receives approval to spy on the man and his actress-lover Christa-Maria (Martina Gedeck). Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, then faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria and orders Wiesler to get the playwright out of the way.This will be a sobering discussion of a really well-done film.Next week we lighten the mood with the return of our friend Snobby Bobby as we celebrate Chinese New Year with a heaping helping of Kurt Russell in "Big Trouble in Little China".Show notes: http://www.actualanarchy.com/219Presented by www