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Film
The Lives of Others
Das Leben der Anderen
★ Editor's Pick
In 1984 East Berlin, a Stasi officer assigned to surveil a playwright and his actress lover begins to empathise with his targets — and empathy, in a surveillance state, is the most subversive act of all. The definitive cinematic treatment of life under East German surveillance.
Language
German
Cast
Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch
Awards
- Academy Award Best International Feature Film
- European Film Award Best Film
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