What is the name of the recent movie about life under the KGB? It came out a couple years ago and was foreign?

Question

It was about a man working for the government spying through a wiretap on an artist and his girlfriend or wife.

Answer 1

The Lives of Others

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/

Answer 2

If you mean life under the Stasi (East German Secret Police) it was "The Lives Of Others" ... a German movie, that is quite brilliant. It beat out "Pan's Labyrinth" to the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, and until I checked the movie out I had been sad about that.