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Good Bye, Lenin!
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781404953796
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404953795
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: English (Subtitled), German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: August 10, 2004
Running Time: 121 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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Editorial Review:
Contemporary comedies rarely stretch themselves beyond a bickering romantic couple or a bickering couple and a bucket of bodily fluids, which makes the ambition and intelligence of Good bye, Lenin! not simply entertaining but downright refreshing. The movie starts in East Germany before the fall of communism; our hero, Alex (Daniel Bruhl), describes how his mother (Katrin Sass), a true believer in the communist cause, has a heart attack when she sees him being clubbed by police at a protest. She falls into a coma for eight months--during which the Berlin Wall comes down. When she awakens, her fragile health must avoid any shocks, so Alex creates an illusive reality around his bedridden mother to convince her that communism is still alive. Good bye, Lenin! delicately balances wry satire with its rich investment in the lives of Alex, his mother, and other characters around them. Funny, moving, and highly recommended. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - An All Time Favorite
This film has been reviewed many times here so I won't recap the story elements but simply say that this is a wonderful, warm and moving film that I will watch again many times!
Rating: - On "Socialist" Lies
Some things are painful in life. As a life-long anti-Stalinist, pro-socialist militant the demise of the Democratic Republic of Germany and its theory of "socialism in half a country" and later, on its heels, the demise of the Soviet Union and its theory of "socialism in one country" nevertheless were social disasters of historic proportions for me. One result is that we live in the age of the one superpower world dominated by the United States and its genuine capacity for making trouble, militarily ... Read More
Rating: - WOLFGANG BECKER, OPUS 4
***** 2003. Co-written and directed by Wolfgang Becker. Six European Film awards. A few months before the fall of the Berlin wall, Alex's mother suffers from a heart attack and falls into coma. When she wakes up months later, her family fears that she won't be able to face the new political reality. Instructive, poignant and fascinating, GOOD BYE, LENIN! deserves all the international awards it earned 5 years ago. Masterpiece.
Rating:  - An honest film about lying
Although marketed as an all-out comedy, Goodbye, Lenin! is in many ways more of a feelgood tragicomedy about the nature of lies rather than a laugh-a-minute sidesplitter. Certainly the premise has all the makings of farce as East German Daniel Bruhle has to go to increasingly desperate lengths to keep the news that communism and the Berlin Wall have both fallen from his Party activist mother when she emerges from a coma for fear the shock will cause a fatal heart attack. Since the pace of change to Western ... Read More
Rating: - German Gem
"Goodbye Lenin" is an excellent film. Director Wolfgang Becher keeps the action fluid as one scene sparks the next. The French Academy of Cinema named it the Best Film from the European Union.
Daniel Bruhl is the star who plays the son Alex. He first came to my attention in Love in Thoughts and was in The Edukators. He has also played in "Ladies in Lavender" with Maggie Smith & Judy Dench and "The Borne Ultimatum." The European Film Academy named him Best Actor for "Goodbye Lenin". ... Read More
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