[Reader-list] The Lives of Others: now showing in Delhi

[Ravikant]

FYI. Apologies for x-posting. 
ravikant

The Lives of Others is releasing in Delhi on 11th July, 2008 at the
following theaters and show times

PVR SAKET       DELHI   1       11.40 PM
PVR SAKET (SELECT)      DELHI   1       04.40 PM
ADLABS  NOIDA   1       03.45 PM
PVR AMBEINCE    GURGAON 1       10.45 PM
PVR EUROPA      GURGAON 1       04.00 PM

*Synopsis:*

The script won over some of Germany's best actors & technicians. Including
Martina Gedeck  ("The Elementary Particles," "Mostly Martha"), Ulrich Mühe
("Funny Games," "Amen"),  cinematographer Hagen Bogdanski ( "No Place to
Go") and editor  Patricia Rommel  ("Nowhere in Africa"). The music was
composed by Oscar winner Gabriel Yared  ("The Talented Mr. Ripley," "The
English Patient") and Stéphane Moucha.

In contrast to light-hearted films about East Germany like "Good Bye Lenin!"
and "Sun Alley", The Lives of Others ventures off the beaten track and
tells  its story without compromise and  with great inner truthfulness. A
story from the heart of the East-German regime, it is an intensely gripping
thriller and a  moving love story.

Five years before its downfall, the former East-German government (DDR)
ensured its claim to  power with a ruthless system of control and
surveillance. Party-loyalist Captain Gerd Wiesler hopes to boost his career
when given the job of collecting evidence against the playwright Georg
Dreyman and his girlfriend, the celebrated theater actress Christa-Maria
Sieland.

But this immersion in The Lives of Others – in love, literature, free
thinking and speech – makes Wiesler acutely aware of the meagerness of his
own existence and opens to him a completely new way of life which he has
ever more trouble resisting. But the system, once started, cannot be
stopped. A dangerous game has begun...

THE LIVES OF OTHERS is extraordinary, for it relates a story, about a system
which is both corrupt and corrupting from deep within the heart of the GDR,
uncompromisingly and with unstinting truthfulness.



*Awards:*

Academy Award 2007 (Oscar)                                       BAFTA  2008

Best Foreign Language Film                                     Best non
English Language Film

Film Independent's Spirit Awards 2007                          Golden Globe
Nomination 2007
Best Foreign
Film                                                                 Best
Foreign Language Film

Los Angeles Film Critics' Association Awards 2006      Locarno 2006
Best Foreign Language
Film Audience Choice Award


*Reviews:*

'As a producer I would like to make an Indian film where you forget that it
has a language, like in 'The  Lives of Others'
 - SHAHRUKH KHAN

'Good Cinema is beyond countries, beyond boundaries, beyond languages. 'The
Lives of Others' is one of those great films.'
-VISHAL BHARDWAJ

'As a film it keeps you completely engrossed, keeps you at the edge of the
seat, wanting to know what's going to happen next.'
- RAJKUMAR HIRANI


www.thelivesofothers.in
www.bbp.co.in