Good Bye Lenin! (German Films 70)

Director: Wolfgang Becker

screenwriters: Wolfgang Becker, Bernd Lichtenberg
cinematographer: Martin Kukula
editing: Peter R. Adam
cast: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß, Florian Lukas, Maria Simon

79 square metres of the GDR. That was and is the shortest tagline coined for a film that then broke all records in the German cinema in 2003. GOOD BYE LENIN! tells a tragicomic story of a family from the time of German reunification when a lie becomes a lifesaver. 

Christiane Kerner witnesses her adult son Alex being beaten up and arrested by the People‘s Police at a Monday demonstration in October 1989. She suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. When she wakes up months later, the world is a different place. The GDR is no more. But her children, in order to spare the faithful communist mother, falsify the news from day to day, just to keep mum from getting upset. The apartment remains the last bastion of the GDR...

Wolfgang Becker succeeded in combining humour with humanism in this film. He takes a satirical look at a country that seems unable to cope with its own historical challenges and makes a son’s love for his mother the central element of a story that is also about understanding.

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Regular ticket price: 2500 HUF
Discounted ticket price: 1900 HUF

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