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8. The Lives of Others, a German film

Tue May 6, 2025, 04:28 AM

May 2025

by Florian Henckel von Donnersmark. It’s set in East Germany shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. It follows a Stazi agent charged with surveilling an artist.

The Official Story, an Argentine film set during the final months of the dictatorship, directed by Luis Puenzo.
It’s about a woman who discovers her adopted daughter is the child of one of the disappeared.

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