Academy Award Winner The Lives of Others to Open this Friday in Mumbai, Pune news

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Academy award winner for the best foreign film (2007) The Lives of Others is all set for an Indian release. The German film based on an extra-ordinary relationship between a secret police agent and a writer, had won Oscar in the best foreign film category last year.

The film is being released in Mumbai and Pune on February 29. Distributor of the film Bharat Bala production plans to release it soon in other Indian cities that include Chennai, Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata and Hyderabad.

In Mumbai the film will be exhibited in the following theatres: Inox (NAriman Point), Metro Adlabs and Sterling Cineplex, Cinemax (Versova), Fun Republic and Fame Adlabs (Andheri).

The distributor Bharat Bala Production also plans to release the film in DVD format. The film will be accompanied by a short film in DVD, that will be selected through a contest. The distributor has invited entries for this contest.

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.

For a full review of the film click here.