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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 ...
Mar 26, 2004 · Goodbye, Lenin! East Berlin, 1989. In the final days before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are riots against the regime. A loyal communist named Christiane (Katrin Sass) sees her son, Alex (Daniel Bruhl), beaten by the police on television, suffers an attack of some sort and lapses into a coma.
First, in 1978, her husband, Robert, runs off to freedom and another woman in the west, leaving her to take care of their two adolescent children, Ariane and Alex, by herself. Always a good Socialist, Christiane devotes her life to the cause as a symbol of anger toward her husband.
If the world moves outside, inside you start to go crazy. Reunited Germany became world football champions in 1990. Ariane is pregnant and will give birth to one of the first babies of reunification. The story is being played out here and now. But Alexandre remains stuck between two realities.
The story centres around Alex Kerner (played by Daniel Brühl), whose mother, Christiane (played by Katrin Saß) falls into a coma for eight months during the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent reunification of Germany.
Jul 16, 2003 · Set in the former East Germany, just before the fall of the Berlin wall, the story is a classic Rip Van Winkle-style satire, with an absurdist streak that's as engaging as it is unexpected.
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.
