Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
Country: GER
Technical: col 121m
Director: Wolfgang Becker
Cast: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Maria Simon, Chulpan Khamatova
Synopsis:
1989, Berlin, GDR: the son of a committed party worker precipitates his mother's near-fatal heart attack when she sees him at an anti-wall demonstration. Eight months later when she comes out of a coma to a very different status quo, he determines to hide the truth from her and gradually comes to appreciate the utopian communist fantasy he has created.
Review:
Longish but original political comedy in which, ten years on, a sense of triumph over injustice (a particularly vivid demonstration sequence arouses suitable indignation) begins to be tempered by a realization of what has been lost in the embracing of capitalism. In keeping the defunct regime alive for his mother, the angry young man remakes it in the image of what she stood for and comes to value her and it all the more by virtue of his efforts. A remarkably even-handed satire, with a peculiarly German line in deadpan irony.
Country: GER
Technical: col 121m
Director: Wolfgang Becker
Cast: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Maria Simon, Chulpan Khamatova
Synopsis:
1989, Berlin, GDR: the son of a committed party worker precipitates his mother's near-fatal heart attack when she sees him at an anti-wall demonstration. Eight months later when she comes out of a coma to a very different status quo, he determines to hide the truth from her and gradually comes to appreciate the utopian communist fantasy he has created.
Review:
Longish but original political comedy in which, ten years on, a sense of triumph over injustice (a particularly vivid demonstration sequence arouses suitable indignation) begins to be tempered by a realization of what has been lost in the embracing of capitalism. In keeping the defunct regime alive for his mother, the angry young man remakes it in the image of what she stood for and comes to value her and it all the more by virtue of his efforts. A remarkably even-handed satire, with a peculiarly German line in deadpan irony.
Country: GER
Technical: col 121m
Director: Wolfgang Becker
Cast: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Maria Simon, Chulpan Khamatova
Synopsis:
1989, Berlin, GDR: the son of a committed party worker precipitates his mother's near-fatal heart attack when she sees him at an anti-wall demonstration. Eight months later when she comes out of a coma to a very different status quo, he determines to hide the truth from her and gradually comes to appreciate the utopian communist fantasy he has created.
Review:
Longish but original political comedy in which, ten years on, a sense of triumph over injustice (a particularly vivid demonstration sequence arouses suitable indignation) begins to be tempered by a realization of what has been lost in the embracing of capitalism. In keeping the defunct regime alive for his mother, the angry young man remakes it in the image of what she stood for and comes to value her and it all the more by virtue of his efforts. A remarkably even-handed satire, with a peculiarly German line in deadpan irony.