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The first time the Bolshevik leader used the name ‘Lenin’ - or ‘N. Lenin’, to be precise - was in 1901, when signing his essays. The habit stuck and the name became a permanent fixture.
- Yekaterina Sinelschikova
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 ...
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.
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
The name “Lenin” carries significant historical weight and meaning, especially within the context of 20th-century politics. Known primarily as the pseudonym of the revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin, the name has roots and connotations that extend beyond this singular association.
‘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 ...
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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.
