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The Conversation
Why this pick
Its solitary surveillance expert and meticulously controlled sound design create a similarly mounting sense of moral unease, where watching others gradually corrodes the watcher.
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MOVIE2006 2h 17m DEU
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1984 East Germany, five years before the fall of the Berlin wall, an agent with the secret police, begins conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover and finds that he is becoming increasingly absorbed and obsessed with their lives.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Martina Gedeck
Christa-Maria Sieland
Ulrich Mühe
Gerd Wiesler
Sebastian Koch
Georg Dreyman
Ulrich Tukur
Anton Grubitz
Thomas Thieme
Bruno Hempf
Hans-Uwe Bauer
Paul Hauser
Matthias Brenner
Karl Wallner
Charly Hübner
Udo