On & Backstage: Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

Posted: Sunday, February 25th, 2007 by Michael van Poppel at 12.00 pm EDT.

CATEGORY: BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
AWARD RECIPIENT: GERMANY
FILM: "DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN"

ONSTAGE
I thank you Academy members from the bottom of my heart for this honor. And I thank Michael and Tom from Sony Classics for choosing The Lives of Others and bringing it to you. I thank Germany and Bavaria for making this film possible. My great department heads for making this film with me.

Schwarzenegger for teaching me that the words "I can't" should be stricken from my vocabulary. And my entire crew. I thank my producers, commissioning editors, distributors, financiers. I thank my brother Sebastian for helping with this script and for "Baumba" for believing in me. But most of all I thank my actors, especially Ulrich and Sebastian, you're the greatest artists and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Finally, my wife Christiane. No, I have to say that one more thing. Just that one more thing: Christiane, I love you.

BACKSTAGE
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