Good Bye Lenin! Page #2

Synopsis: East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Wolfgang Becker
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 33 wins & 19 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
R
Year:
2003
121 min
$4,000,000
Website
8,749 Views


Fullstop. Even in the GDR, there

are not only young princesses on ice and...

exquisitly slim comrades. Full-stop.

- That's good.

You're not downstairs? It's already started.

- Impossible to overhear!

You're not downstairs? It's already started.

- Impossible to overhear!

Well hurry up then. It could be the last time

with these members.

Where's Paula?

- Yeah, where is she? Sleeping again?

Maybe I'll see your

mother on TV. - In the palace?

Maybe I'll see your

mother on TV. - In the palace?

You'll have to look for her with a magnifying glass.

I don't really know if I'll go there.

All of the party's bigwigs are there.

I don't know anyone. Although... I'd like

to see Gorbatschow at close range this once.

There they are celebrating themselves,

all the old bastards.

Well you don't have to watch.

- Mum, don't you notice what's happening there?

And you, what do you want? Do a bunk?

Nothing will change if

they all go away. Let's go on.

It cannot be possible,

that the stouter...

...workers and farmer's wifes...

are punished by the fashion combinates...

...after the 40th year of the existence

of our Republic!

With socalist salutations...

Hanna Schfer.

In the evening of October 7, 1989

several hundred people united...

for an evening walk,

to promote...

the idea of walking without borders.

Freedom of the press! Freedom of the press!

Cough! Cough hard!

Everything alright?

You alright?

- Thank you!

There're even more Greens.

Alright already!

Form a chain!

No violence! No violence!

You might make it

if you take the subway.

What's your name?

La...

Stop it!

Watch out!

That's my mum lying there!

- Stand still! - My mum's lying there!

Let me go, you a**hole!

That's my mu......

Alexander Kerner?

- Yes?

Your mother.

What about mother?

What is it?

Mum had a heart attack.

Unfortunately, the resuscitation attempts were carried out

very late. Your mother's in a coma.

When can we talk to her?

- Alex, Mum's in a coma!

Mr. Kerner, we don't know yet,

whether or not your mother will ever wake up again.

Can you hear me, Mum?

You've got to wake up!

But mother was fast asleep.

In her deep, neverending sleep...

she circled like a satellite

around the events happening...

on our little planet

in our even smaller Republic.

The 9th Convention agreed to Honecker's request,

to relieve him of his duties...

because of health problems

and thanked him for his political life's work.

Congratulations!

Her sleep obscured the retirement of

the esteemed comrade Erich Honecker,

Her sleep obscured the retirement of

the esteemed comrade Erich Honecker,

General Secretary of the CC of the SUG

and Chairman of the GDR's council of state.

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