The Lives of Others
Date:
October 5, 2009 - 19:30 - 22:00
Building:
Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower Room:
Auditorium Event type:
Film Screening Event audience:
Open to the Public Website:
Center for Arts and Culture 
The Lives of Others / Das Leben der Anderen
(German with English subtitles; 2006, 137 min, dir.: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
The award-winning film deals with the monitoring of the East Berlin cultural scene by agents of the Stasi, the GDR's secret police.
With The Lives of Others, Henckel von Donnersmarck won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/
The screening is part of a film series at CEU marking in October 2009 the 20th anniversary of the changes in Central and Eastern Europe.