Word: gedeck
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...offers a number of other talented actors that display some unforgettable moments during the film. Hans–Uwe Bauer, who plays a controversial writer and friend to Dreyman, adds an important element of anger that clashes with Dreyman’s naïvely optimistic attitude. Martina Gedeck, who plays Dreyman’s girlfriend, delivers the most clear external example of the destruction wrought by internal conflict—the audience watches as she is worn down to a nub by the struggle between right and wrong. The director also makes the score a key element, elevating...
...full fester, keeping watch on artists and political dissidents, forcing many into obeisance or jail, silence or suicide. Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe), a mousy Stasi captain, plants bugs in the home of chic playwright Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and his actress girlfriend Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck). Wiesler and his coarser superiors have motives as complex as they are nasty: to please a party boss, to tease out scenarios of voyeuristic lust and, well, because they can. Wiesler has another reason to spy and pry: he's good at it. So when Dreyman decides to write a sub-rosa...
...compulsive. I'm precise," says Martha Klein (Martina Gedeck), chef of a ritzy Hamburg restaurant. Precise, sure, but her loveless life still needs a bit of leavening. That comes in two packages: her balky 8-year-old niece (Maxime Foerste) and a lavishly charming Italian sous-chef (Sergio Castellitto). The setup and payoff of this German export couldn't be more conventional, but Nettelbeck is a sharp observer of life's surprises, and Gedeck has an appraising, intelligent beauty. Her Martha is like the film: tart on the outside, sweet on the inside, with a delectable aftertaste. --By Richard Corliss
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