The Lives of Others

Before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's Secret Police Listened to Your Secrets.

Plot Summary

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

8.0 /10

2006

DE

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