TY - ADVS AU - Henckel von Donnersmarck,Florian AU - Wiedemann,Max AU - Berg,Quirin AU - Gedeck,Martina AU - Mühe,Ulrich AU - Koch,Sebastian AU - Tukur,Ulrich AU - Thieme,Thomas AU - Bauer,Hans-Uwe AU - Knaup,Herbert ED - Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion ED - Bayerischer Rundfunk ED - Creado Film TI - The lives of others PY - 2007/// CY - UK PB - Lions Gate Home Entertainment KW - Secret service KW - Germany KW - Drama KW - Police patrol KW - Surveillance operations KW - lcgft KW - Feature films KW - Fiction films N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 2006; Special features: Extented and deleted scenes ; Cast and crew interviews ; Making of "The lives of others" ; Original Stasi Devices Gallery ; Audio Commentary on Feature and Deleted Scenes by writer and director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; Camera, Hagen Bogdanski ; editor, Patricia Rommel ; music, Gabriel Yared, Stephane Moucha; Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Herbert Knaup; BBFO rating: 15 years and over. Contains strong sex; IFCO rating: 15 years or more N2 - A 1984 East Berlin simple surveillance assignment: Capt. Gerd Wiesler, a Stasi officer and a specialist in surveillance, has been assigned to keep an eye on Georg Dreyman, a respected playwright, and his actress girlfriend, Christa-Maria Sieland. Though Dreyman is known to associate with blacklisted director Albert Jerska, a known dissident, Dreyman's record is spotless. Wiesler discovers that Minister Hempf has an ulterior motive in spying on this seemingly upright citizen. Wiesler's sympathies shift from the government to its people, or at least to this one particular person ER -