In Germany’s official submission for Oscar, the director of the Academy Award-winning The Lives of Others revisits German history with an epic and intimate story that spans three decades, from the 1930s to the 60s. Tom Schilling stars as Kurt Barnert, a fictional artist loosely based on Gerhard Richter, who falls in love with fellow art student Ellie (Paula Beer) in East Germany, but finds his progress undermined by her father (Sebastian Koch), a prominent doctor. However, neither Kurt nor the doctor knows that their lives are already connected through a terrible crime from the Nazi era. With Saskia Rosendahl. Rated R. In German with English subtitles. Camera: Caleb Deschanel. Writer/Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. (Germany 2018) 189 min.