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Good Bye, Lenin!
Good Bye, Lenin!
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Good Bye, Lenin!

2003 7.5 18.4K R views saved
Good Bye, Lenin!

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.

Countries: DE
Languages: German
Content Rating: R
Runtime: 2hrs 1min
Status: Released
Release date: 2003-02-13
Release format: Streaming — Mar 13, 2003
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Mustard
@mustarde 3 years ago

Ohhh the pain that nostalgia inflicts... My favorite part about this film is the portrayals of newly emerging subcultures after the unification.

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Mustard
@mustarde 3 years ago

Ohhh the pain that nostalgia inflicts... My favorite part about this film is the portrayals of newly emerging subcultures after the unification.

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Guzz
@guzzlima 8 months ago

A captivating masterpiece that brilliantly combines drama and comedy, flowing in an efficient, lively and natural way. The story is great, very original, skillfully interweaving a real political context with fiction. The characters are exceptional, well-developed, and the film balances the complexity of the context with simplicity, lightness and objectivity. It's a narrative full of contrasts that harmonize in perfect harmony. It's a fantastic experience that entertains and moves.

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samtasia
@samtasia 4 years ago

Absolutely incredible. So many layers of German history, comedy, grief, family...it all works together so beautifully.

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Caty
@catyalexandre 11 years ago

Touching. Charming. Lovely!
For those who don't know or haven't seen this film yet this is the story of Alexander, a young man that lives in East Germany and her mother falls into a coma 8 months before the fall of the Berlim wall. She was a devoted member of the communist party and to prevent her from having another shock, Alexander and his sister act like never happened. They create a world were the communist party is still alive
This story is perfect in the historical and political context but also portrays very well the social change, the family values, family relationships and love. It's also very humorous with a lot of funny scenes.
I loved it!

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@adammorgan 5 years ago

I have to admit that this movie snuck up on me a little bit. During the first half of the film I thought it would be little more than a movie about a charade going on during the time of massive change in Germany. I didn't expect to see the depth of character and story that develops during the last half of the film. I especially enjoyed the commentary about the different systems of government - the old system wasn't perfect but the new one wasn't either. Seeing the lead come up with his own system was pretty interesting. I have to admit that I laughed out loud when there is a bit of role reversal near the end of the film.

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Cormac
@cormacwatches 6 months ago

I thought one of the most poignant moments in this film was when Alex and his sister try to exchange their Ostmarks for West German Marks, as his views on the East are shown to be not so simple.

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alexlimberg
@alexlimberg 11 months ago

When I first watched this movie, I thought it's just a fun movie, a comedy mixed with *Eastalgia* (a German word that's a fusion of *east* and *nostalgia*) . As a west German it's of course great to learn about the GDR, which was to me always like a totally foreign country. I was still a kid in 1989 and it was not before 1989 I realized there's another Germany in the east. And like most west Germans I didn't really know who *Siegmund Jähn* or even the *Sandmännchen* was or what cultural significance they had.

Watching it a second time, I think there's actually more to it. It's a time capsule of 1989/90. More a serious tragedy than a comedy. It shows the revolution, the rapid change that steamrolled East-Germans and it shows so much of what made Berlin's culture between 1990 and the early 2000's that exciting. The emergence of so many subcultures could only happen in such times.

Plus, the love story is lovely.

So much better than *Sonnenallee*. It's the best portray of this era in German history. I must say though, that I'm still waiting for a movie like *The Downfall* which depicts the final days of another German dictatorship. We need something like that for the final months of East-Germany.

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Miu
@samuelmiu 2 years ago

The mother in the movie is brainwashed very seriously by the dictatorship regime. The son seems to be very successful, but in modern society, it is only ridiculous. It is his girlfriend who is more realistic. Tell the truth to his mother. Now it is 2022 However, there are still many evil dictatorships around the world who deceive the people. How many people have suffered from the Wuhan pneumonia, when will human beings wake up and wipe out these evil dictatorships from the world?

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Spiritualized Kaos
@spiritualized-kaos 19 hours ago

Nostalgia for a German Democratic Republic that never existed?

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