The Life of Others

production: Wiedemann und Berg Filmproduktion

director:
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

genre:
drama/ history

cast:
Ulrich Mühe (Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler)
Sebastian Koch (Georg Dreyman)
Ulrich Tukur (Oberstleutnant Anton Grubitz)
Martina Gedeck (Christa-Maria Sieland)
Thomas Thieme (Minister Bruno Hempf)
Werner Daehn (Einsatzleiter)
Herbert Knaup (Gregor Hessenstein)

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synopsis

The horrifying, sometimes unintentionally funny system of observation in the former East Germany. In the early 1980s, the successful dramatist Georg Dreyman and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland, a popular actress, are big intellectual stars in the socialist state, although they secretly don't always think loyal to the party line. One day, the Minister of Culture becomes interested in Christa, so the secret service agent Wiesler is instructed to observe and sound out the couple, but their life fascinates him more and more...

"The Life of Others" won the Oscar (best foreign language film 2007) and (til today) 54 wins and 23 nominations.