friedrich german june july german film television theatre actor played role captain oscar winning film der lives received gold award best performance actor leading role best actor award european film awards leaving school employed construction worker border guard berlin wall turned acting late 1970s 1980s appeared numerous plays star active politics denounced communist rule memorable address demonstration november shortly fall berlin wall german continued appear large number films television programmes theatre productions germany particularly known playing lead role long running forensic crime series der witness early life education son born june leaving school trained construction worker compulsory military service border guard berlin wall relieved duty contracting stomach number commentators said stress suggested marked beginnings stomach cancer eventually lead death turned acting studied leipzig appeared professional stage role lady sea followed appearing production playwright director career invitation joined ensemble star versatility comic roles appearing productions der wise took lead role hamlet shakespeare play later said theatre place people weren lied actors island dare screen starred second wife film german lyric poet played leading role organizing demonstrations took place prior germany gave public readings essay mit der truth book permitted published november shortly fall berlin wall half million people demonstration declared communists monopoly power invalid year internationally known playing leading role spider web based novel austrian writer right wing lieutenant sleeps murders way professional success early republic following near fatal injury wilhelmshaven mutiny october german continued appear large number films television programmes theatre productions germany abroad proved ability comic roles oscar nominated satire hoax showed video castle adaptation castle funny games film wife played husband wife held captive holiday cabin young men force play games 2000s played series nazis portrayed und film played upcoming feature film comedy die adolf_hitler adolf_hitler played adolf actor hired hitler lessons appeared london thomas german production playing middle aged journalist encounter young girl leads leeds hotel room known germany playing brilliant eccentric episodes forensic crime serial der witness awarded prize best actor actress series german television awards lives later life english speaking audiences probably best known portraying captain der lives won academy award best foreign language film film set mid-1980s agent assigned bug conduct surveillance apartment east german playwright girlfriend actress disillusioned necessity monitoring couple national security reasons discovering government minister ordered surveillance sexual political motives gradually heart moves contempt compassion performance received things best performance actor leading role gold germany prestigious film awards best actor award der dictatorship known short government funded organization tasked examining communist dictatorship said impressive performance audience millions consequences statement added active valued participant foundation events seriously ill prize giving ceremony los_angeles february der awarded oscar flew germany hours later urgent stomach operation article dated july discussed diagnosis stomach cancer acting career hold died following day july buried mother village rural district personal life married times married sons berlin based photographer painter second marriage actress fell love acting film die year daughter actress stepfather daughter artist german allegedly discovered evidence file surveillance fellow actors theatre wife file held detailed records meetings registered unofficial collaborator controller mirrored plot der film pressure exerted playwright girlfriend makes author covered suicide rates divorced book accompanying film spoke sense betrayal felt found wife alleged role real life controller later claimed details file actress unaware speaking agent highly public battle courts died august won injunction preventing book publication response asked prepared role der remembered time death married wife stage actress living berlin children starred film nemesis deals couple troubled relationship died launched lawsuit block film release nearly years apparently felt cast couple bad light awards addition awards mentioned article conferred following awards shoe german actor award der und film directors germany ring ring prize critics selected works film information table obtained retrieved september television information table obtained retrieved september theatre audio books information table obtained online catalogue
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