THE LIVES OF OTHERS
(15) 2006 Germany Subtitled
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.
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's movie debut focuses on 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 best film of the year” GUARDIAN
“Utterly compelling” TIME OUT
“Exceptional on many levels...films like this don’t come along very often: I urge you to see it” SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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