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6 days ago · Christiane's new purpose in life is to serve the DDR. „fühlte mich auf den Höhepunkt meiner männlichen Ausstrahlungskraft." The scene where Alex is sitting and drinking beer - shows his lack of ambition compared to his childhood. „Hau ab. Lass mich in Ruhe."
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Jul 16, 2003 · German comedy is usually thought of as an oxymoron, but Wolfgang Becker's "Good Bye Lenin!" manages to wring tears of joy and sadness out of a family’s experiences...
Christiane gets stronger and one day wanders outside while Alex is asleep. She sees her neighbours' old East German furniture stacked in the street, new West German cars for sale, advertisements for Western corporations, and a statue of Lenin being flown away by helicopter.
Light and entertaining, Good Bye, Lenin contains subtle humorous interludes that raise a smile. Alex's persistent efforts to hide the truth from his mother are both funny and touching. Some of his ideas are as extravagant as they are foolish.
Alex's mother is a social activist who aims to improve the socialist regime life, but then she falls into a coma and awakens only eight months later. By then, the Berlin Wall is torn down and the division between East and West Germany is abolished.
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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.
