DDR, 1984. Poet Dreyman becomes the subject of Stasi scrutiny out of personal, old-man's reasons of a high Stasi-officer. "HGW XX/7", the officer sent to listen in to every second of his private life, starts making his own assumptions and decisions.
A truly wonderful film. Characters as you seldom see them. The diversity of HGW XX/7, first bad, then good, then pushed to evil again, finally climbing up towards the Great Good, is amazing. There are few flat characters, and those who are there, minister Bruno Hempf, are there with a reason: they were those charicatures. They didn't have depth, just eye for their own gradual climbing.
Loved it.
