1. How we made The Lives of Others | Movies | The Guardian
23 nov 2020 · How we made The Lives of Others · Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, writer and director · Sebastian Koch, played Georg Dreyman · How we made ...
The film about the Stasi spying on East German lovers was seen as too dark, with one funder even wanting it remade as a comedy. But it went on to win an Oscar
2. The Lives of Others | Rotten Tomatoes
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In 1983 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe), doubting that a famous playwright (Sebastian Koch) is loyal to the Communist Party, receives approval to spy on the man and his actress-lover Christa-Maria (Martina Gedeck). Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, then faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria and orders Wiesler to get the playwright out of the way.
3. The Lives of Others - Beta Cinema
Party-loayalist Captain Gerd Wiesler hopes to boost his career when given the job of collecting evidence against the playwright Georg Dreyman and his girlfriend ...
4. Film around the world: Germany's The Lives of Others - Cherwell
14 mei 2024 · The Lives of Others centres around Gerd Wiesler, a fictional Stasi officer tasked with monitoring the behaviour of a potentially dissident playwright and his ...
In one of Germany’s best-known films of recent years, Donnersmarck shines a light on one of the GDR’s most notorious government departments.
5. The Oscar-Winning Espionage Drama That Caused Real-Life Spies To Quit
25 aug 2024 · Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's feature directorial debut, The Lives of Others, conquered both the Oscars as the Best International Feature ...
It's impossible to watch this movie and not be touched by its story of an unlikely connection.
6. About: The Lives of Others - DBpedia
The Lives of Others is a 2006 German drama film written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck marking his feature film directorial debut.
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.
7. The Lives of Others (Film) - TV Tropes
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) is an award-winning German drama film from 2006. It is the debut film of screenwriter and director Florian Henckel ...
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) is an award-winning German drama film from 2006. It is the debut film of screenwriter and director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. The film takes place in 1984 in state-socialist East Germany and …
8. [PDF] The Lives of Others Notes.pdf - Yale Library
... Film in Munich, where he made a number of award-winning short films. While at film school, von Donnersmarck wrote an outline for a story called “Sonata for ...
9. The Lives of Others (Das Leben der anderen) - Cineuropa
sales agent: Beta Cinema ; year: 2006 ; genre: fiction ; directed by: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ; film run: 137'.
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10. The Lives of Others (2006) | MUBI
13 jan 2014 · In 1983 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria.
In 1983 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.
11. The Loneliest Audience in The Lives of Others - Bright Wall/Dark Room
11 jul 2022 · Perhaps no film has captured this revelatory aspect of voyeurism quite so beautifully as Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others ...
We can’t help but look and listen. Yet what if it were not a burden, but even a call for self-reflection and an incitement to change?
12. The Lives of Others - Adam Smith Institute
30 mrt 2020 · The film is set in Communist East Germany (GDR). The main character is a Stasi officer, Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe).
Well into week three of home isolation and the temptation to stop work and switch on the TV has never been stronger. In a textbook case of self-justification, I flicked on The Lives of Others as, being in German, it made me feel pretentious enough to not to admit to watching TV during the daytime
13. The Lives of Others - review - Libcom.org
12 aug 2007 · Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others has been touted as a corrective to a wave of fond media memories of the GDR communist ...
Bogus history, liberal wish-fulfilment, bourgeois triumphalism – no wonder ‘The Lives of Others’ won an Oscar, reckons Tom Jennings
14. The Lives of Others - Reviews - Reverse Shot
20 feb 2007 · An art-house hit in its first couple of weeks of release, the Academy Award-nominated The Lives of Others is a fitting coda to a movie year that ...
An art-house hit in its first couple of weeks of release, the Academy Award-nominated The Lives of Others is a fitting coda to a movie year that was defined by the ascendant middlebrow.
15. The Lives of Others: A Screenplay by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is a director and writer. He studied at the School of Television and Film in Munich, where he broke the student record for the ...
Nothing is private. Nothing is sacred.In 1984 East Berl…