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LIVES OF OTHERS (THE)

By Florian HENCKEL VON DONNERSMARCK

Drama - Completed 2006

- Year of production
- 2006
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Duration
- 137 mn
- Director(s)
- Florian HENCKEL VON DONNERSMARCK
- Writer(s)
- Florian HENCKEL VON DONNERSMARCK
- Cast
- Martina GEDECK, Ulrich MUEHE, Ulrich TUKUR, Sebastian KOCH, Thomas THIEME
- Producer(s)
- Max WIEDEMANN (Wiedemann & Berg), Quirin BERG (Wiedemann & Berg)
- Synopsis
- Party-loyalist Captain Gerd Wiesler hopes to boost his career when given the job of collecting evidence against the playwright Georg Dreyman and his girlfriend, the celebrated theater actress Christa-Maria Sieland. After all, the “operation” is backed by the highest
  political circles. What he didn’t anticipate, however, was that submerging oneself into the world of the target also changes the surveillance agent. The immersion in The Lives of Others – in love, literature, free thinking and speech – makes Wiesler acutely aware of the meagerness of his own existence and opens to him a completely new way of life which he has ever more trouble resisting. But the system, once started, cannot be stopped. A
  dangerous game has begun...