Das Leben der Anderen(German Language) [DVD] [2007]

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The Lives of Others (German: Das Leben der Anderen) is a 2006 German drama film. The Lives of Others won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film had earlier won seven Deutscher Filmpreis awards-including those for best film, best director, best screenplay, best actor, and best supporting actor-after setting a new record with 11 nominations. Released 17 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall marking the end of the East German socialist state, it was the first noticeable drama film about the subject after a series of comedies such as Goodbye, Lenin! and Sonnenallee. This approach was widely applauded in Germany, though some raised doubts[weasel words] that a real Stasi officer might ever have undergone the transformation of the film's main character towards a person, caring for the fate of potential dissidents, and even protecting them. Many former East Germans were stunned by the factual accuracy of the film's set and atmosphere, resembling a state which had merged with West Germany and subsequently vanished 16 years prior to the release.