The Lives of Others DVD

DVD Release Date:

August 21, 2007

Length:

137 minutes

MPAA Rating:

R for some sexuality/nudityAbout the Movie The Lives of Others on DVD:
This German-language drama won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The story opens in 1984 East Germany, five years before the Berlin Wall came down. Exercising considerable control over the citizenry is a pervasive secret police known as the Stasi. The key character in the movie is Stasi Capt. Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe), who ends up conducting surveillance on a successful playwright (Sebastian Koch) and his live-in girlfriend (Martina Gedeck). Wiesler soon finds himself in a moral quandary.

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• Widescreen

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