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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 Revolution in November.
May 13, 2009 · Wolfgang Becker's film Good Bye Lenin! has been touted as the most representative example of ostalgie, and is used here as a text to examine the complex questions about looking back on everyday life during communism's fall. Through its use of nostalgic themes, the film simultaneously embraces and derides the Western values that became an indelible part of the post-1989 landscape, and thus ...
- Timothy Barney
- 2009
Oct 2, 2017 · Wolfgang Becker’s film Goodbye, Lenin (2003) portrays a tragicomic story of an East German family mirroring the historical changes after the fall of Berlin Wall. The hero Alex fabricates an elaborate fantasy of pre-fall-of-the-Wall life for his mother who suffers with amnesia, since her fragile heart cannot get excited by the drastic social change. Alex’s ...
Oct 18, 2014 · ‘Good Bye Lenin!‘ is the story of an East-German family around the fall of the Iron Curtain. It tells how individual family members deal with the father’s Republikflucht (escape from the GDR) to the West several years ago (backstory) and how the remaining family deals with the mother suffering a heart attack and falling into a coma for several months, and then waking up to a new world.
Jul 23, 2024 · Good Bye Lenin! Good Bye Lenin! is a 2003 film, set in 1990, about a young man who must protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma by keeping her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared. Written and directed by Wolfgang Becker. The German Democratic Republic lives on – in 79 m²!
Wolfgang Becker’s Good Bye Lenin! is a Rip Van Winkle-style satire about one man’s attempt to make history and time stand still, so he can protect his ill mother from the times’ political upheaval. We first meet the Kerner family in 1989 on the eve of the German Democratic Republic’s fortieth anniversary; twenty-year-old Alex lives with ...
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Good Bye Lenin! as Reflective ‘‘Ostalgic’’ Text One of the few films that puts itself right in the middle of the major events of breakdown and reunification, GBL spans the period from the GDR’s 40th anniversary on Oct. 10, 1989 to the official reunification of the two Germanys about a year later, with some interspersed flashbacks into the late 1970s.65 Katrin Sass stars as the ...
