"The Lives of Others" and Contemporary German Film: A Companion

This volume offers the first book-length academic investigation of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others (2006). The aim of this edited collection is twofold. On the one hand, it offers new insight into one of the most successful German films of the past two decades, placing The Lives of Others within its wider historical, political, aesthetic and industrial context. On the other, it offers this group of scholars, which includes many of the leading international figures in the field, opportunity to make a series of interventions on the state of contemporary German film and German film studies. Comprehensive analyses on one of the most influential German movies of the 21st century Historical, cultural and theoretical contextualisations of the movie and GDR history With a contribution by the director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck