The Lives of Others
“Before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's Secret Police Listened to Your Secrets.”
In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Studio
Creado Film
Language
de
Status
Released
How The Lives of Others performed
Budget
$2.0M
Worldwide Gross
$77.7M
Gross Profit
$75.7M
Return
38.8× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$11M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Christa-Maria Sieland
Martina Gedeck
Christa-Maria Sieland
Gerd Wiesler
Ulrich Mühe
Gerd Wiesler
Georg Dreyman
Sebastian Koch
Georg Dreyman
Anton Grubitz
Ulrich Tukur
Anton Grubitz
Bruno Hempf
Thomas Thieme
Bruno Hempf
Paul Hauser
Hans-Uwe Bauer
Paul Hauser
Albert Jerska
Volkmar Kleinert
Albert Jerska
Karl Wallner
Matthias Brenner
Karl Wallner
Udo
Charly Hübner
Udo
Gregor Hessenstein
Herbert Knaup
Gregor Hessenstein
Häftling 227
Bastian Trost
Häftling 227
Frau Meineke
Marie Gruber
Frau Meineke
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