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The Lives of Others
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Year
Run Time
2006
138 min.
Work Rating
Countries
MPAA Rating
Germany
R
Category
Color Type
Feature
Color
AKA
Das Leben der Anderen (Original Foreign title)
Director
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Genres
Drama
Types
Political Thriller
Period Film
Flags
Not For Children
Adult Situations
Sexual Situations
Nudity
Profanity
Keywords
girlfriend
infatuation
patriotism
playwright
spy
surveillance
anti-establishment
secret-police
Themes
Writer's Life
Totalitarian States
Crisis of Conscience
Secret Organizations
Conspiracies
Actor's Life
Tones
Tense
Understated
Passionate
Sexual
Grim
Paranoid
Cinematic Process
Widescreen
Color type
Cinepostproduction
Sound by
Dolby Digital
MPAA Reasons
for some sexuality/nudity
Produced by
ARTE
Bayerischer Rundfunk
Buena Vista International
Creado Film
Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion
Release
2007 02 09 (USA - Limited)
Released by
Lions Gate Entertainment
Sony Pictures Classics
AMG Work ID
V 350173
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