Das Leben der Anderen - Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others

Drama

Martina Gedeck	Christa-Maria Sieland
Ulrich Muhe	Captain Gerd Wiesler
Sebastian Koch	Georg Dreyman
Ulrich Tukur	Lieutenant Colonel Anton Grubitz
Thomas Thieme	Minister Bruno Hempf
Hans-Uwe Bauer	Paul Hauser
Volkmar Kleinert	Albert Jerska
Matthias Brenner	Karl Wallner
Thomas Arnold	Nowack
Ludwig Blochberger	Benedikt Lehmann
Ulrich Mühe	Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler
Charly Hübner	Udo
Herbert Knaup	Gregor Hessenstein
Bastian Trost

Director	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Producer	Quirin Berg; Dirk Hamm; Claudia Gladziejewski
Writer	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Cinematography	Hagen Bogdanski
Musician	Stephane Moucha; Gabriel Yared

Set in 1984, East Berlin, Stasi officer Gerd Weisler (Ulrich Muhe) is ordered to spy on the writer Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and girlfriend Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck) by his superior officer, Hempf... supposedly to collect data on any anti-government intent. After Dreyman's best friend commits suicide from being blacklisted by the GDR, as well as finding out his woman has been forced into sexual relations with Hempf, Dreyman blossoms into the rebel he was not before. Eventually gathering enough evidence to hang him, Weisler feels pity over seeing a peaceful man brought to malcontent thoughts, leading him to rethink his life. He allows his prey to publish a scathing anti-government article in the newspaper. Hempf then actively questions Weisler's actions, but finds he too has emerging confusion over who he is and why he does what he does.