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- Wolfgang Becker's film about one man's attempt to make history stand still is a tragi-comic journey into political upheaval and personal worries. Taking wry pot-shots at the monolithic ideologies of Communism and Capitalism, Becker turns this family's crisis into a symbol of Germany's own attempt to heal old wounds and rebuild itself.
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Good Bye, Lenin! is a 2003 German tragicomedy film, directed by Wolfgang Becker. The cast includes Daniel Brühl , Katrin Sass , Chulpan Khamatova , and Maria Simon . The story follows a family in East Germany (GDR); the mother (Sass) is dedicated to the socialist cause and falls into a coma in October 1989, shortly before the Peaceful ...
Mar 26, 2004 · East Berlin, 1989. In the final days before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are riots against the regime. A loyal communist named Christiane (Katrin Sass) sees her son, Alex (Daniel Bruhl), beaten by the police on television, suffers an attack of some sort and lapses into a coma.
Good Bye Lenin!: Directed by Wolfgang Becker. With Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Simon. In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.
- (154K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Wolfgang Becker
- 2004-05-14
First, in 1978, her husband, Robert, runs off to freedom and another woman in the west, leaving her to take care of their two adolescent children, Ariane and Alex, by herself. Always a good Socialist, Christiane devotes her life to the cause as a symbol of anger toward her husband.
Good Bye Lenin is a rhyme about life, love and revolution. A nursery rhyme that evokes the difficulty of detaching oneself from a love, that hurts us, but that we must leave. A rhyme from another time, or another summer for Yann Tiersen.
Feb 9, 2003 · Heartfelt and sly, Good Bye, Lenin! succeeds as a satire by foregrounding the personal before the political, yielding a charming comedy full of sociopolitical insight. Read Critics...
- (110)
- Comedy, Drama
- R
Jul 16, 2003 · Hailed as Best European Film at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival, "Good Bye Lenin!" looks destined to become one of Germany's biggest international hits. Set in the former East Germany, just...
