Nominated for the 2006 Academy Award for best foreign-language film, writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's feature debut is a tense and tightly plotted fictional thriller is based on real tactics used by the Stasi — East Germany's secret police force — to spy on and interrogate their own citizens.
East Berlin, 1984: Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Muhe) is only one of the estimated 100,000 agents employed by the Ministry for State Security, a group dedicated to crushing dissident thought, speech and behavior among the enemies of socialism wherever they may lurk. But by all accounts he's the perfect Stasi agent — utterly devoted to serving as the "s...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
137 mins