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GOOD BYE, LENIN!

By Wolfgang BECKER

Comedy - Completed 2003

Director Wolfgang Becker and producers X Filme Creative Pool
('Run Lola Run', 'Heaven') have teamed up with French
composer Yann Tiersen ('Amélie') for a witty, moving and utterly
unique take on German reunification starring European Film
Promotion's Shooting Star 2003 Daniel Brühl and Katrin Sa

- Year of production
- 2003
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Duration
- 118 mn
- Director(s)
- Wolfgang BECKER
- Writer(s)
- Bernd LICHTENBERG
- Cast
- Daniel BRÜHL, Katrin SAß, Chulpan KHAMATOVA, Maria SIMON
- ISAN 0000-0000-8127-0000-Y-0000-0000-9
- Producer(s)
- Stefan ARNDT (X Filme Creative Pool)
- Synopsis
- October 1989 was a bad time to fall into a coma if you lived in East Germany - and this is precisely what happens to Alex's mother, an activist for social progress and the improvement of everyday life in socialist East Germany. Alex has a big problem on his hands when she suddenly awakens eight months later. Her heart is so weak that any shock might kill her. And what could be more shocking than the fall of the Berlin Wall and the triumph of capitalism in her beloved country? To save his mother, Alex transforms the family apartment into an island of the past, a kind of socialist museum where his mother is lovingly duped into believing that nothing has changed. What begins as a little white lie gets more and more out of hand as Alex's mother, who feels better every day, wants to watch TV and even leaves her bed one day…

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