Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2007.
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Notes:
- DVD Region 1 Dolby Digital 5.1.
- In German with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Herbert Knaup.
- Director of photography, Hagen Bogdanski editor, Patricia Rommel music, Gabriel Yared, Stéphane Moucha costume designer, Gabriele Binder production designer, Silke Buhr.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 2006.
- Special features: optional audio commentary by Von Donnersmarck (in English) interview with Von Donnersmarck (in English, 30 min.) making-of featurette (in German with English subtitles, 19 min.) 7 deleted scenes, with optional audio commentary by Von Donnersmarck (in English).
- MPAA rating: R for some sexuality and nudity.
- Academy Awards, 2007: Best Foreign Language Film of the Year.
- 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.
Subjects:
- Germany (East). Ministerium für Staatssicherheit — Drama.
- Secret service — Germany — Drama.
- Police patrol — Germany — Berlin — Surveillance operations — Drama.
- Dramatists — Drama.
- Actresses — Germany — Berlin — Drama.
- Dissenters — Germany — Berlin — Drama.
- Blacklisting of entertainers — Germany — Berlin — Drama.
- Berlin (Germany) — Drama.
- Motion pictures, German.
- Foreign films — Germany.
- Feature films. lcgft
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