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Lives Of Others

The Lives Of Others

Das Leben der Anderen

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck


  • Country: Germany
  • Year: 2006
  • Language: German
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  • Runtime: 137 min.

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Academy Award®-winning feature debut is both a taut thriller and an impassioned moral drama, offering an intriguing glimpse behind the Iron Curtain prior to perestroika.

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screening times

    • Monday November 15
    • 7:00:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 2

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

official description

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Academy Award®-winning feature debut is both a taut thriller and an impassioned moral drama, offering an intriguing glimpse behind the Iron Curtain prior to perestroika. When a powerful East German cultural commissar takes a shine to a beautiful actress, he assigns a grim and dedicated agent of the secret police (Ulrich Mühe) to spy on her lover, an acclaimed playwright (Sebastian Koch) who might be harbouring doubts about the regime. When the hunter starts feeling an affinity with his quarry, however, the moral calculus becomes even more complex. Fired by the finely nuanced performance by Mühe (who sadly passed away shortly after the film's release), The Lives of Others is a blistering indictment of a corrupt and cynical regime, and a tribute to those who retained their humanity within it.

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Our screening of The Lives of Others is part of a special event presentation in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Toronto.
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