The Lives of Others

Movie

2006

2h 17m

German

Drama, Thriller

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

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The Lives of Others

Movie

2006

2h 17m

German

Drama, Thriller

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

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Cast

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Martina Gedeck

Christa-Maria Sieland

Gerd Wiesler

Georg Dreyman

Anton Grubitz

Bruno Hempf

Paul Hauser

Albert Jerska

Karl Wallner

Udo

Gregor Hessenstein

Häftling 227

Frau Meineke

Schriftexperte

Einsatzleiter in Uniform

Axel Stigler

Nowack

Benedikt Lehmann

Einsatzleiter Meyer

Egon Schwalber

Onkel Frank Hauser

Paul Maximilian Schüller

Junge mit Ball

Andrea

Zahnarzt Dr. Czimmy

Tagesschausprecher

Wächter

Directed By: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Written By: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Screenplay)

Featured Comments/Tips

paezfaexz says...

9 years ago

You're funny. Balls don't have names

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BRANFI says...

10 years ago

An important movie, placed in a time so close, in a place so near with a history so scary that every single European should watch.

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Zoshib says...

9 years ago

It's an amazingly touching story which reveals the importance of staying true to yourself no matter how hard it may be. Now there's no doubt that humanity DOES exist.

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Last Impressions says...

3 weeks ago

A horror story with a happy ending. They should show this film in school...just think some sections of humanity would like to go back and live in societies like this, have we learned nothing from history but then again with the listening devices in our TV's, phones and the prominence of cancel culture, the deceit against basic human liberty is less transparent. These bosses are all the same, corrupt and self serving but give me one that leaves me alone to live my life, than one that interferes with my everyday existence because i don't conform to the ideology.

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salvdelg

8/10 5 years ago

This movie seems almost a paradoxical transformation: Gerd, a member of DDR in East Germany, pours his loneliness and his deep discomfort in his delicate work of intercepting a couple (a writer and an actress) suspected of plotting against the government. Spying on them, Gerd catches their desire to More

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portman123

3 months ago

Good guys facing tragic circumstances in an interesting period of history.

Because you view the main characters lives from the perspective of the morally confused Stasi Officer investigating them, you receive more information than the characters have about their hopeless situation. This makes it More

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