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Actor · 1956

Herbert Knaup

2
briefs
13:00
average
26 min
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Run Lola Run

Tom Tykwer · 1998

Franka Potente plays Lola, who has twenty minutes to find 100,000 marks and save her boyfriend Manni from a violent debt collector, and Tom Tykwer's 1998 film runs the same twenty minutes three times, letting split-second differences in Lola's path — a man with a dog, a delay on the stairs — cascade into wildly different outcomes for everyone she passes. Told through a mix of live action, animation and still-photo flash-forwards, it became the highest-grossing German film of its year.

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The Lives of Others

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck · 2006

Ulrich Mühe plays Stasi Captain Gerd Wiesler, assigned to bug the apartment of a celebrated East German playwright in 1984 whose real offence is that a government minister covets his girlfriend. As Wiesler listens in, he begins quietly protecting the couple from the surveillance he was sent to conduct, an act of conscience that Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's 2006 debut treats as fiction the director openly acknowledges the real Stasi never produced.