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>he couldn't see his story in the film ...

Published comments, just last month. In German -- would any bilinguals care to summarize?

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/donnersmarck-hein-das-leb...

He describes the movie as an overly dramatic dark fairy tale and says he doesn't recognize himself in the main character. As far as specific criticism goes, he says the way the main character has to write in secrecy and is suppressed by the Stasi is inaccurate. He says his room was bugged in the 60s but the 80s in the DDR were supposedly much more liberal than what the film shows.

I read only the automatic Google translation to English, so this might be a misreading, but he does seem to recognize that he was being a little too pedantic in expecting historical accuracy in a dramatic work.

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