Briefly stated, the film focuses on the gradual disillusionment of the Stasi officer, Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler, who is tasked with gathering compromising information on a successful East German ...
Gerd Wiesler is an officer with the Stasi, the East German secret police. The film begins in 1984 when Wiesler attends a play written by Georg Dreyman, who is considered by many to be the ultimate ...