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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.
- Timothy Barney
- 2009
Oct 2, 2017 · In Goodbye, Lenin Wolfgang Becker expresses the ostalgie emotion by deconstructing the historical event in an ironic way. Sigmund Jähn, the former GDR astronaut who is the first German in space, has been a taxi driver after unification.
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...
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.
May 19, 2011 · Using Wolfgang Becker’s film Good Bye Lenin!, this paper analyses the phenomenon of Ostalgia through the lens of Jean Baudrillard’s theories on simulation and simulacra.
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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.
