The Lives of Others
In 1984 East Berlin, a Stasi officer assigned to bug a playwright's apartment becomes absorbed in the lives he is listening to.
- Type
- Film
- Released
- 2006
- Director
- Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Length
- 137 min · One sitting
- Original title
- Das Leben der Anderen
- Rated
- MPA R
- Critics' average
- 87/100 across 4 published scores
Genres
Drama · Historical · Political & conspiracy thriller · Period drama · Thriller
What it feels like
Surveillance & authoritarianism · Politics & social systems · Identity & selfhood · Melancholic · Tense
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