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Oct 2, 2017 · Ostalgie is a German term used for describing a nostalgic mood for East Germany. 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.
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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.
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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 ...
Having recently watched Goodbye Lenin (great movie, watch it if you haven'), I want to know how accurate the movie was. How did East Berliners and Germans adapt to the western lifestyle? Was the movie and its quirks all accurate? Thank you!
Wolfgang Becker’s Goodbye 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.
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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.
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‘Good Bye, Lenin’!‘ owes its overwhelming reception the way the story of a family is told from different perspectives: son, mother, daughter. The resulting storylines link three main characters, several secondary characters, a total of 20 turning points and four endings to a story.