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The Lives of Others(Movie, 2006)

Original title: "Das Leben der Anderen" (German/DE)
FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 17min | Genres: Drama, Thriller
The Lives of OthersRating: 4.0/5 (with 15741,574 votes)
The Lives of Others (German: Das Leben der Anderen, pronounced [das ˈleːbm̩ deːɐ̯ ˈʔandəʁən]) is a 2006 German drama film written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck marking his feature film directorial debut. The plot is about the monitoring of East Berlin residents by agents of the Stasi, East Germany's secret police. It stars Ulrich Mühe as Stasi Captain Gerd Wiesler, Ulrich Tukur as his superior Anton Grubitz, Sebastian Koch as the playwright Georg Dreyman, and Martina Gedeck as Dreyman's lover, a prominent actress named Christa-Maria Sieland. The film was released by Buena Vista International in Germany on 23 March 2006. At the same time, the screenplay was published by Suhrkamp Verlag. The Lives of Others won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film had earlier won seven Deutscher F... ()
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Available languages: German (Original)
Available subtitles: German
Duration: 2h 18min
Genres: Gesellschaftsdramen / Thriller / Spionagefilme
Keywords: Düster
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Available languages: German
Duration: 2h 12min
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Awards & Nominations for The Lives of Others

Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film César Award for Best Foreign Film Academy Award for Best International Feature Film European Film Award for Best Film European Film Award for Best Actor European Film Award for Best Screenwriter Academy Award for Best International Feature Film European Film Award for Best Film European Film Award for Best Actor European Film Award for Best Actress European Film Award for Best Composer European Film Award for Best Director European Film Award for Best Screenwriter

About The Lives of Others

A tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the system.

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Additional Information

Production countries: Germany, France
Plays in: East Berlin
Original language: German (DE)
Spoken languages: German (DE)
Translated into 33 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Slovenian (SL), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 03/15/2006
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Zivoty tech druhých"
"Das Leben der Anderen - Die Sonate vom guten Menschen"
"Teiste elu"
"La vida de los otros"
"La vie des autres"
"타인의 삶"
"De andras liv"
"竊聽風暴"

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