Ulrich Mühe, RIP By Jacob Laksin

If the name Ulrich Mühe means little to you, you’re not the only one. The German actor, who died last week at the tragically young age of 54, was little known outside of his native country. And while that began to change with the release of Lives of Others, a deeply poignant film about life in Communist East Germany in which Mühe played the starring role, he never acquired a fame commensurate with his outsized talents. Even so, Mühe deserves to be remembered, both for his contributions to film and, perhaps more important, to the historical memory of the Communist era that the Lives of Others will do much to mold.

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