The Lives of Others

The Lives of Others

Overview

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

Ratings

IMDb 8.4
TMDB 8.0
Rotten Tomatoes 92
Metacritic 89

Details

Cast Charly Hübner, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Herbert Knaup, Martina Gedeck, Matthias Brenner, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Thieme, Ulrich Mühe, Ulrich Tukur, Volkmar Kleinert
Country France, Germany
Release Year 2006
Runtime: 2h 17m
Budget: 77,672,685 USD
Release Date: 2007-03-30
Awards: Top rated movie #60 | Won 1 Oscar, 80 wins & 38 nominations total
Tagline: Before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's Secret Police Listened to Your Secrets.