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Screenplay Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

The Lives of Others

Original Title: Das Leben der Anderen

Tagline: Before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's Secret Police Listened to Your Secrets.

Release Date: 2006-03-23

Duration: 137 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Martina Gedeck
    Christa-Maria Sieland
  • Ludwig Blochberger
    Benedikt Lehmann
  • Marie Gruber
    Frau Meineke
  • Sebastian Koch
    Georg Dreyman
  • Charly Hübner
    Udo
  • Bastian Trost
    Häftling 227
  • Hildegard Schroedter
    'Elena' 1984
  • Michael Gerber
    Zahnarzt Dr. Czimmy
  • Herbert Knaup
    Gregor Hessenstein
  • Martin Brambach
    Einsatzleiter Meyer