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  1. 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.

  2. Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) Directed and co-written by Wolfgang Becker, co-written by Bernd Lichtenberg ‘[W]hat difference does it make once the lies have started?’ Is it better to tell the truth or to lie for apparently good reasons? The film poses this question on both a political and personal level. The plot revolves around Alex, who

  3. 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 ...

  4. This paper examines the role of language in creating, representing, and manipulating realities, using the 2003 German movie Good Bye, Lenin! as a vivid and striking illustration of the role...

  5. 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.

  6. GOOD BYE, LENIN! was a box-office success in Germany in 2003 and has been seen by more people than many Hollywood productions. The film was awarded the European Film Prize in late autumn.

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  8. 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.