@ Oer-6: Did you actually watch the movie?
So it took Dreyman 7 years to figure out that Wiesler helped him.
He had no idea he's had a guardian angel within the Stasi. He knew that his appartment had been searched but he knew nothing about the bugs. Only after the reunification he learned from former Minister Hempf that he had been surveilled completely. It took 4 years and seven months from Christa Maria's death till the Fall of the Wall.
And he decides to let him wait another 2 years so he can write his book for dramatic effect.
Of course this a movie and things happen for dramatic effect. But then Dreyman is an artist and doesn't produce one trashy novel after the other. He probably writes and rewrites everything until he is really satisfied with it.
while Dreyman must be rich.
Where do you get that impression? In the GDR he probably wasn't rich. At least you see no luxury in his appartment or anywhere else in his life. In the GDR and the other communist states popular artists weren't paid the way you know it from Western countries. And in the first years after the reunion, when the last scenes take place, he doesn't wear expensive clothes, he doesn't seem to have a car, he even still lives in his old appartment in East Berlin! Maybe with his new novel he would make some money but at the end of the movie it is only just published.
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