Good Bye Lenin!

Nestor 2022-04-23 07:01:46

Christina (Kathrin Sass) is a heartfelt supporter of socialist East Germany. Her husband has fled to West Germany, leaving her alone to raise her son Alex (Daniel Brühl). . In 1989, Alex took to the streets to parade and was arrested. Witnessing this scene, his mother fainted from a heart attack and was unconscious for a long time. When she woke up, the country she knew had changed—the Berlin Wall came down, and socialism in the GDR disintegrated.
The doctor said that Christina could not be stimulated any more. So the son tried every means to create a past world for his mother. The mother was thus able to live in the old GDR: including the clothes of the neighbors, the news on TV, and the canned food of the Soviet Union. However, it is impossible for Alex to hide the huge real world with his good intentions. Finally, the son told his mother about the changes in East Germany in his own way.

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Extended Reading
  • Gregory 2021-11-18 08:01:26

    What a great movie. What was once strong is gone with the wind. But some feelings were left to the end of the world.

  • Zoe 2022-03-27 09:01:05

    The toddler who loves mother and baby walks to the street accompanied by music, and sees a surreal scene in the evening sunlight that can make people look better. The contrast between the two doctrines and the revelation of the double lies are still moving. The illusion created is not nostalgia, just not wanting to change. It may be thought that what our generation was taught when we were young and what we saw when we grew up did not give us a chance to see each other again. The North Shadow is placed.

Good Bye Lenin! quotes

  • Sigmund Jähn: Where to?

    Alexander Kerner: Wannsee

    Sigmund Jähn: I know what you think. Everyone does. But I'm not him.

  • Dr. Wagner: You must protect her from any kind of excitement. And I do mean any kind, Mr. Kerner.

    Alexander Kerner: Any kind of excitement.

    Dr. Wagner: It would be life-threatening.

    Alexander Kerner: And this here?

    [Shows the doctor a newspaper reading "Good Luck, Germany. Yes to Reunification"]

    Alexander Kerner: Wouldn't you call this exciting?