German film that won the Oscar for ‘Best Foreign Film’. An actress and her dramatist partner, intellectual stars in the former East Germany, are spied on by secret police under orders from the Ministry of Culture. Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Starring Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Muhe. "An exquisite love story first and foremost.... a suspenseful thriller with a complex and powerful moral drive” – Observer.