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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20070223
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Byline: Kelly Jane Torrance, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck didn't set out to goad Germany to confront its past, but that's just what the 33-year-old writer-director's masterly debut, "The Lives of Others" ("Das Leben der Anderen"), has done.

The German filmmaker, in town recently to promote his Oscar-nominated film that opens here today, was inspired by reading what Vladimir Lenin said about Beethoven's "Appassionata" sonata.

"What astonishing, superhuman music!" the dictator told writer Maxim Gorky. "I want to say sweet, silly things, and pat ...

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