The Lives of Others (2006)

Thomas Thieme: Minister Bruno Hempf

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• Georg Dreyman : I want to ask you one thing.

  Minister Bruno Hempf : Anything, my dear Dreyman.

  Georg Dreyman : Why wasn't my flat wired? Everyone was under surveillance. Why not me?

  Minister Bruno Hempf : [whispers]  You were under full surveillance. We knew everything about you.

  Georg Dreyman : Full surveillance?

  Minister Bruno Hempf : The whole place was bugged. The works.

  Georg Dreyman : Impossible.

  Minister Bruno Hempf : Take a look behind your light switches. We knew everything. We even knew that you weren't man enough to satisfy our little Christa.

  Georg Dreyman : [contemptuously]  To think that people like you ruled a country.