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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. 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 ...
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Oct 2, 2017 · However, the ostalgie mood in Goodbye, Lenin not only is presented by arousing collective memory, but also by guiding audiences to rethink German history. Through an ironic version of ideal history in faked TV news, Wolfgang Becker illustrates that ostalgie does not mean the GDR is an idealistic utopia, or that the people of the GDR are lost after the fall of Berlin Wall.
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.
Examining Good Bye, Lenin! under the lens of two German cultural phenomenons - Ostalgia and Mauer im Kopf - this essay contends that the film’s political significance exists primarily in its nuanced understanding and unique presentation of Germany’s journey towards national reunification. In this endeavor, Becker’s film succeeds in both ...
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Mar 9, 2017 · A critical analysis of Goodbye Lenin! The Relationship between History and Memory: The post-war period ends in Germany in 1989 by demolishing of the Berlin wall. The unification process brought a lot of problems in all sections of the society. It has also brought problems to Germany’s future role as economic and political powers and directs ...
Aug 9, 2004 · But more surprisingly, “Good Bye, Lenin!” has also tapped a deep reservoir of nostalgia towards East Germany, a country and culture that disappeared overnight. “Good Bye, Lenin!” takes ...
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FILM SYNOPSIS. 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 ...
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