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The Lives of Others

Movie
2006
2h 17m
R
German
Drama, Thriller
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8.5
Critic Score: 
91
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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

R
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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8.5
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CRITIC SCORE
91

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Cast

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Martina Gedeck
Christa-Maria Sieland
Ulrich Mhe
Gerd Wiesler
Sebastian Koch
Georg Dreyman
Ulrich Tukur
Anton Grubitz
Thomas Thieme
Bruno Hempf
HansUwe Bauer
Paul Hauser
Volkmar Kleinert
Albert Jerska
Matthias Brenner
Karl Wallner
Charly Hbner
Herbert Knaup
Gregor Hessenstein
Bastian Trost
Häftling 227
Marie Gruber
Frau Meineke
Volker Michalowski
Schriftexperte
Werner Daehn
Einsatzleiter in Uniform
Hinnerk Schnemann
Thomas Arnold
Ludwig Blochberger
Benedikt Lehmann
Martin Brambach
Einsatzleiter Meyer
Hubertus Hartmann
Egon Schwalber
Paul Fanacht
Onkel Frank Hauser
Paul Maximilian Schller
Susanna Kraus
Michael Gerber
Zahnarzt Dr. Czimmy
Fabian von Klitzing
Tagesschausprecher
Harald Polzin
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...
11 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...
10 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...
8 months 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  6 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
10 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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