![]() ![]() Sieland flees to a nearby bar where Wiesler, posing as a fan, urges her to be true to herself. After an intervention by Wiesler leads to Dreyman's discovering Sieland's relationship with Hempf, he implores her not to meet him again. Wiesler learns that Dreyman has been put under surveillance at the request of the Minister of Culture, Bruno Hempf ( Thomas Thieme), who covets Dreyman's girlfriend, actress Christa-Maria Sieland ( Martina Gedeck). Wiesler and his team bug the apartment, set up surveillance equipment in an attic and begin reporting Dreyman's activities. In 1984 East Germany, Stasi Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler ( Ulrich Mühe), code name HGW XX/7, is ordered to spy on the playwright Georg Dreyman ( Sebastian Koch), who had so far escaped state scrutiny due to his Communist views and international recognition. The film's authenticity was considered praiseworthy given that the director grew up outside of East Germany and was 16 when the Berlin Wall fell. This approach was widely applauded in Germany even as some criticized the humanization of Wiesler's character. Released 17 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, marking the end of the German Democratic Republic, it was the first notable drama film about the subject after a series of comedies such as Good Bye, Lenin! and Sonnenallee. The Lives of Others cost US$2 million and grossed more than US$77 million worldwide as of November 2007. It also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language and European Film Award for Best Film, while was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film had earlier won seven Deutscher Filmpreis awards-including those for best film, best director, best screenplay, best actor, and best supporting actor-after setting a new record with 11 nominations. The Lives of Others won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. At the same time, the screenplay was published by Suhrkamp Verlag. The film was released in Germany on 23 March 2006. 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. The plot is about the monitoring of East Berlin residents by agents of the Stasi, East Germany's secret police. ![]() The Lives of Others (German: Das Leben der Anderen, pronounced ( listen)) is a 2006 German drama film written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck marking his feature film debut. ![]()
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