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IMDb rating 8.4
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Critic Roger Ebert
rated 10

...a powerful but quiet film, constructed of hidden thoughts and secret desires.

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Critic Alan Morrison
rated 10

...a moving, enlightening tale of recent times.

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Critic Noel Murray
rated 7

'The Lives Of Others' perseveres, thanks to the performances of the heartbreakingly stoic Mühe and the problematically heroic Koch...

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Critic Frederik Asschenfeldt Vandrup
rated 8

...uforudsigeligheden er en stor styrke i en fortælling, der snildt kunne have lagt sig stilsikkert, men uopfindsomt op af de utallige forgængere i spiongenren.

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Cast & Crew

Herbert Knaup
As Gregor Hessenstein
Ulrich Tukur
As Anton Grubitz
Thomas Thieme
As Bruno Hempf
Marie Gruber
As Frau Meineke

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In 1984, East Germany, a Stasi agent named Gerd Wiesler is tasked with spying on the famous playwright Georg Dreyman and his actress girlfriend Christa-Maria Sieland. As Wiesler becomes more and more absorbed in their lives, he begins to question his own loyalty to the state and ultimately decides to protect them from harm, even at the cost of his own career. Meanwhile, tensions rise as Dreyman writes an article accusing the government of concealing high suicide rates, and Sieland is blackmailed into revealing Dreyman's authorship. In a tragic turn of events, Sieland is killed in a car accident while fleeing from the Stasi. The film ends with Wiesler being demoted to a dead-end assignment and Mikhail Gorbachev being elected leader of the Soviet Union, signaling the beginning of the end for East Germany's communist regime.

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