Anderson - Anatomie des Verrats

From the land of poets and philosophers he came, a typewriter under his arm and a dream in his head – to be a spy. Anderson maps the fascinating psychogram of a man who was an agent to the quick – and who in all things, his love life included, was steeped in lies. The Stasi stool-pigeons who denied everything were not only the moustachioed men in beige jackets seen in "Lives of Others", but also included artistic types with the erotic auras of a Sascha Anderson. The country he worked for, the GDR, exists no longer, but Anderson unabashedly defends his deeds twenty-five years on. The unique German-German situation, and the resulting release of GDR secret files, enabled Annekatrin Hendel to now expose a disturbing anatomy of betrayal. (Berlinale)