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Goodbye Lenin! (DVD, 2004)

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The story of a young German boy who does all he can to prevent his mother becoming ill. Christiane suffers a heart attack when she witnesses her son being arrested. She slips into a coma and stays that way right through the fall of the Berlin wall...

Product Identifiers

EAN5039036016667

eBay Product ID (ePID)30050330

Product Key Features

ActorMaria Simon, Chulpan Khamatova, Daniel Bruhl, Katrin Sass

Film/TV TitleGoodbye Lenin!

DirectorWolfgang Becker

FormatDVD

Release Year2004

LanguageGerman

GenreDrama, Comedy

Run Time116 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate15

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureGermany

ComposerYann Tiersen

ReviewsHeat - A brilliantly original comedy with a truly inspired premise...a real gem of a movie..., Empire - ...Funny, moving, charming and original...

Additional InformationThis culture-shock comedy drama takes a look at life in East Germany before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Alex (Daniel Bruhl) dreams of being an astronaut while his highly-strung mother (Katrin Sass) works tirelessly as a teacher and state official. She's so vehemently pro-socialist that when she glimpses her son getting arrested during a political protest, she falls into a heart-attack-induced coma and stays there through the raising of the iron curtain and the influx of West German capitalism. When she suddenly wakes up, Alex decides he has to keep the country's sudden change a secret from her, in order to prevent her weak heart from giving out at the shock. Lots of subterfuge and comedy ensues, and what ultimately emerges is a touching parallel between the outward economic change and Alex's own inability to grow up and let go of his own mother-dominated past for an uncertain future with his cute Russian girlfriend (Chulpan Khamatova). Director Wolfgang Becker cleverly incorporates archival news footage of the space race, riots, soccer matches, the fall of the wall, and the arrival of consumer goods en masse. The score by Yann Tiersen (AMELIE) is effective, and Sass earns high marks as Alex's keenly intelligent, heartbroken mother.

Movie/TV TitleGoodbye Lenin!