23 Mar 2006
The Lives of Others
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the Stasi secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Top Billed Cast
Mišel Matičević Manfred Brettschneider
Stephan Kampwirth Lutz Lenarth
Loretta Pflaum Sigrid
Katrin Bühring Regine Lehmann
Robert Gwisdek Lutz als Jugendlicher
Philipp Danne Manfred als Jugendlicher
Max Mauff Philip als Jugendlicher
Jannik Büddig Bernd als Jugendlicher
Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey Philipp Blaschke
Werner Wölbern Berg
Ludwig Blochberger Funktionär der FDJ
Thomas Arnold Richter
Harald Baumgartner 
Lutz Blochberger SED-Kreissekretär
Hark Bohm Chefredakteur
Dieter Brandecker 
Paula Dombrowski Easy
Katja Geist 
Joachim Kappl 
Corinna Kirchhoff
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