The Lives of Others (2006)

6.71
/ 10
7 User Ratings
2h 17m
Running Time

March 23, 2006
Release Date

The Lives of Others (2006)

6.71
/ 10
7 User Ratings
2h 17m
Running Time

March 23, 2006
Release Date

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Network & Production Companies
Bayerischer Rundfunk
Wiedemann & Berg Film
ARTE
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Plot.

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the Stasi secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

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Details.

Release Date
March 23, 2006

Original Name
Das Leben der Anderen

Status
Released

Running Time
2h 17m

Content Rating
R

Budget
$2,000,000

Box Office
$70,000,000

Filming Locations
Berlin, Germany

Genres

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This Movie Is About.

germany
berlin germany
berlin wall
corruption
german democratic republic
stasi
blackmail
cold war
soviet union
freedom of speech
house search
artists' life
spying
government
interrogation
surveillance
heartbreak
east germany
communism
political thriller
corrupt agent
political corruption
surveillance state
persecuted writer
systemic corruption
noble sacrifice
corrupt government

Wiki.

The Lives of Others (German: Das Leben der Anderen, pronounced [das ˈleːbn deːɐ̯ ˈʔandəʁən] ) is a 2006 German drama film written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck marking his feature film directorial debut. The plot is about the monitoring of East Berlin residents by agents of the Stasi, East Germany's secret police. It stars Ulrich Mühe as Stasi Captain Gerd Wiesler, Ulrich Tukur as his superior Anton Grubitz, Sebastian Koch as the playwright Georg Dreyman, and Martina Gedeck as Dreyman's lover, a prominent actress named Christa-Maria Sieland.

The film was released by Buena Vista International in Germany on 23 March 2006. At the same time, the screenplay was published by Suhrkamp Verlag. The Lives of Others won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. The film had earlier won seven Deutscher Filmpreis awards—including those for best film, best director, best screenplay, best actor, and best supporting actor—after setting a new record with 11 nominations. It also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language and European Film Award for Best Film, while it was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The Lives of Others cost US$2 million and grossed more than US$77 million worldwide.

Released 17 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, marking the end of the German Democratic Republic, it was the first notable drama film about the subject after a series of comedies such as Good Bye, Lenin! and Sonnenallee. This approach was widely applauded in Germany, and the film was complimented for its accurate tone despite some criticism that Wiesler's character was depicted unrealistically and with undue sympathy. The film's authenticity was considered praiseworthy given that the director grew up outside of East Germany and was 16 when the Berlin Wall fell.

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