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Rating: 8.5 stars

All movies seen on 06/11/2011

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The Lives of Others (2006)

Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Drama

Overview

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.

Rated R | Length 137 minutes

Actors

Martina Gedeck | Ulrich Mühe | Sebastian Koch | Ulrich Tukur | Thomas Thieme | Hans-Uwe Bauer | Volkmar Kleinert | Matthias Brenner | Charly Hübner | Herbert Knaup | Bastian Trost | Marie Gruber | Volker Michalowski | Werner Daehn | Hinnerk Schönemann | Thomas Arnold | Ludwig Blochberger | Martin Brambach | Hubertus Hartmann | Paul Faßnacht | Paul Maximilian Schüller | Susanna Kraus | Michael Gerber | Fabian von Klitzing | Harald Polzin | Sheri Hagen | Gitta Schweighöfer | Hildegard Schroedter | Inga Birkenfeld | Jens Wassermann | Gabi Fleming | Kai Ivo Baulitz | Anabelle D. Munro | Klaus Münster

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

I’d been meaning to watch this for a while now, so glad to have finally caught up to it. From the same director who did The Tourist.

This movie slowly draws you in to the human side of a politically driven drama having to do with the Stasi, Communist East Germany’s secret police; how corrupt the communist system was; and the toll it took on real people, their creativity and the performing arts.

It’s a very heartbreaking, and yet uplifting, story that really brings home the consequences of that era.

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