MOVIE · 2006
The Lives of Others
DramaMysteryThriller137 min
In 1984 East Berlin, Stasi captain Gerd Wiesler is assigned to bug the apartment of a celebrated playwright and his actress partner, listening for signs of disloyalty to the state. Ulrich Mühe is Wiesler, a meticulous surveillance expert whose latest operation centers on Sebastian Koch’s Georg Dreyman and Martina Gedeck’s Christa-Maria Sieland. As political pressure, jealousy, and blackmail close in from above, the line between observer and subject begins to shift inside the tightly controlled world of the GDR.
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