The Auteurs
Film Info

Germany

2006

137 Min.

Cast & Credits

DIR Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

PROD Quirin Berg, Max Wiedemann

SCR Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

DP Hagen Bogdanski

CAST Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur

Excerpt

2006’s Best Foreign Film Oscar winner, a political thriller about an East German policeman sent to spy on an ideologically dangerous writer.

Reviews

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Marc 11:29am November 11th, 2009
I didn't know movies could be this good.
Stephen 6:08am September 6th, 2009
Wonderful film. Quiet, Moving and very touching. The film does not judge socialism or socialists, but instead portrays a man slowly losing his faith in the ideology because of the selfishness and corruption of others. The other lives of the title are not just the people he watches (who play a smaller part in his conversion than is initially obvious) but also his fellow comrades who think only of their own lives and not of others - which goes against everything he holds socialism to be.
Ilka 9:53am June 9th, 2009
Wonderful movie. One of the best films I have ever watched. Ulrich Mühe's performance is just too good. This is an honest movie about a very dark period in Germany's history. What a piece of work. Everyone should watch this film.
Don 6:25am May 3rd, 2009
An East German interrogation officer takes charge of surveilling a playwright, and is slowly turned against his own government by observing the suffering of this innocent man. He is further disillusioned by the corruption of Communist Party bosses who abuse their power in many little tyrannies as well as great ones. He realizes they are not the true believers in the socialist cause that he is; or at least once was.

This is a touching film about a people who live in a culture of betrayal, yet transcend it through their own noble acts.
The Auteurs