Das Leben Der Anderen - Honecker joke

Axel Stiegler tells a joke about Erich Honecker with a surprising outcome!

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Comedy

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• Das
• Leben
• Der
• Anderen
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• lives
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• Wiesler
• HGW
• Stasi
• Ulrich
• Muhe
• Stiegler
• Honecker
• joke

[TheCat86]

It's hilarious because the guy ends up opening cards in a basement.

[CroppyBoy1798]

@TheCat86 Yeah thats good alright, he ends up 'in a cellar hole opening mail!', :P. As it happens Stiegler is from Department 'M' (as he says in this clip, then, later in the movie when Dreymann is looking through his record and reads the part about Wiesler being demoted and moved to other duties its suggested he's moved to 'Department M'.

Another quirky piece was Udo (the agent helping Wiesler) whom said he much preferred monitoring artists as there was more 'dak dak dak'......:P over

[CroppyBoy1798]

priests or peace activists. Then, later in the movie when Wiesler decides to 'downscale the operation' and have Udo taken off the case Grubitz sighs, thinks for a minute and says 'well there is this church case that I could use him for', thats brilliant, subtle comedy.

[freeuganda]

he says aufhängen, neu wählen.

its a play on words.

neuwählen can mean

vote again(in politics) or dial again(phone)

an aufhängen means hang up(lynch or end a call)

so it fits for both, the phone and the

politican

[RdClZn]

Ulrich Mühe is dead?!

That's really sad

I came here o laugh about this nice joke (and learn a bit, cuz' there's more thing in this joke that I didn't know that make it funnier), but now I'm really sad... :(((

[PlatoJaspers]

Yes, maybe to be translated as: "Hang up and try again."

[PlatoJaspers]

Friede, Freiheit, Eierkuchen....So war die DDR.

[jkoloklkoklokl]

Ich versteh den sinn der szene nicht so ganz. wenn der offizier am ende nicht gelacht hätte dann wäre es schockierender und wirkungsvoller gewesen, aber so sagt die szene einfach nur aus, dass auch stasi-leute spaß verstehen oder sowas ähnliches.

[TheColinChapman]

....und heute wählen sie im Osten zu einem Drittel wieder die, gegen die sie vor 22 Jahren wegen eben solcher Gängeleien auf die Straße gegangen sind.

[HANSMKAMP]

@DXFoley Das ist nicht immer der Fall. Neben Das Leben der Anderen, habe ich mehrere gute Deutsche Filme gesehen. Ein davon ist Der Untergang.

[jpCps01]

Could Herr Stiegler be a little more careless?

I loved this movie. I was really sad when I found out that Ulrich Mühe died. He was an excellent actor who portrayed an excellent character.

[bakalarko]

@freeuganda snt this this: neu wählen meaning to choose a new victim? xD

like, lynch one and choose new victim :P

[OverlordRulerOfAll]

"....Uh-huh-huh, ja! Huh-huh - .....NAME?!...."