Set in East Berlin in 1984, a secret service agent assigned to monitor a playwright and his girlfriend begins to question his assignment and his loyalty to the government.
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In East Berlin in 1984, the secret police, known as the Stasi, are gaining more and more control, spying on German citizens and recruiting thousands of them to spy on each other. Captain Gerd Wiesler (Mühe) has been ordered to find something on playwright Georg Dreyman (Koch), so he sets up a surveillance room and listens closely as Dreyman, his actress girlfriend, Christa-Marie Sieland (Gedeck), and various suspected radical friends gather in their apartment. But when Wiesler discovers that culture minister Bruno Hempf (Thieme) cast suspicion on Dreyman only so he can have his way with Sieland, the master interrogator and torture teacher starts taking a long look at just what it all is about.
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