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The Lives of Others

Das Leben der Anderen

  • 2006
  • Germany
  • feature film - Drama
  • 137 min. (3758 m.)
  • Location shooting / Berlin story line

short description

Melodrama about playwrite Dreyman and the secret police informer who surveils him.

Cast

Actor/-ess
Martina Gedeck (Christa-Maria Sieland)
Ulrich Mühe (Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler)
Sebastian Koch (Georg Dreymann)
Ulrich Tukur (Oberstleutnant Anton Grubitz)
Thomas Thieme (Minister Bruno Hempf)
Hans-Uwe Bauer (Paul Hauser)
Herbert Knaup (Georg Hessenstein)
Volkmar Kleinert (Albert Jerska)
Matthias Brenner (Karl Wallner)
Bastian Trost (Häftling 227)
Charly Hübner (Udo)
Marie Gruber (Frau Meineke)
Hinnerk Schönemann (Unterleutnant Axel Stigler)
Thomas Arnold (Nowack)
Hubertus Hartmann (Egon Schwalber)
Volker Michalowski (Schriftexperte)
Werner Dähn (Einsatzleiter in Uniform)
Martin Brambach (Einsatzleiter Meyer)
Paul Faßnacht (Onkel Frank Hauser)
Ludwig Blochberger (Benedikt Lehmann)
Susanna Kraus (Andrea)
Gabi Fleming (Prostituierte »Ute«)
Michael Gerber (Zahnarzt Dr. Czimmy)
Fabian von Klitzing (Tagesschausprecher)
Harald Polzin (Wächter)

Direction

Director
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Assistant director
Claudia Beewen

Writing

Screenplay
Script supervisor
Matthias Junge

Camera & Light

Director of photography
Hagen Bogdanski
Assistant camera / focus puller
Nicolay Gutscher
Still photographer
Hagen Keller
Lighting design
Michael »Rossi« Röska

Decor

Set design
Christiane Rothe
Klaus Spielhagen (Filmarchitekt)
Property master
Klaus Spielhagen
Stand-by props
Olaf Kronenthal
Construction manager
Frank Noack
Make-up artist
Annett Schulze
Sabine Schuhmann
Costume design
Gabriele Binder
Najad Kirchberger (Assistenz)
Production design
Silke Buhr
Christian Sitta (Assistenz)

Cutting & Mixing

Editing
Patricia Rommel
Assistant editor
Julie Bargeton
Sound editor
Christoph von Schönburg (Überwachung)
Andrea Koschmieder (Dialoge)
João Pedro Costa Pinto (Geräusche)
Sound assistant
Oliver Schnug
Sound design
Christoph von Schönburg
Foley artist
Joern Poetzl
Philipp Sellier (Aufnahme)
Audio mixing
Hubertus Rath
Special effects
Hans Seck
Adrian Lorberth
Stunt co-ordinator
Alister Mazzotti
Casting
Simone Bär
Synchronic-Sound
Eva Claudius