Jamie Coughlin Silverman and Gabriel Silverman say their doc, debuting at SXSW, has parallels to today, from data collection to times "when your neighbors turn on each other, when realities become ...

He was a veteran of German theatre and had roles in more than thirty domestic and foreign films, but will be remembered internationally for playing Gerd Wiesler, the bald Stasi officer in the film ...

A woman who was tricked into a relationship by an undercover officer on a spying mission has said that he and his colleagues behaved like the Stasi. Alison was a teacher of English and media ...

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 ...

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 ...

We also hear about the historian who helped bring a former Stasi officer to justice decades after he killed a man. Also the moment Bolivia elected its first ever indigenous president in 2005.

Xabi Alonso has followed Jurgen Klopp in downing Bayern Munich, but now he’s learning the dark side of taking on the German giants. The Liverpool legend led Bayer Leverkusen to their first ...

“These are the first conversations of their kind between Stasi officers and a victim,” a synopsis on the SXSW website highlights. “Through these meetings, a terrifying mosaic is built of the ...