Good Bye Lenin!

Good Bye Lenin!

  • Director: Wolfgang Becker
  • Writer: Bernd Lichtenberg,Wolfgang Becker,Achim von Borrie
  • Countries of origin: Germany
  • Language: German, English, Russian
  • Release date: May 14, 2004
  • Runtime: 2h 1min
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Goodbye Lenin!
  • The film is a 2003 German comedy, drama, directed by Wolfgang Becker , co-starred by Daniel Brühl , Kathrin Sass and Florian Lukas. The film was released in Germany on February 13, 2003   .
    The film tells the touching story of the son concealing the fact that GDR has disintegrated in order to prevent the mother suffering from heart disease from being stimulated, and creating a "Germany" that is completely different from the world that has changed dramatically outside. From the perspective of a warm and kind lie, the film reflects the mental state of the German people in the Middle East during the historical tide of the collapse of Berlin Wall.

    Details

    • Release date May 14, 2004
    • Filming locations Alexanderplatz, Mitte, Berlin, Germany
    • Production companies X-Filme Creative Pool, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), ARTE

    Box office

    Budget

    €4,800,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $4,064,200

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $57,968

    Gross worldwide

    $79,316,957

    Movie reviews

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    • By Reyes 2022-04-23 07:01:46

      Farewell to Lenin, Farewell to the era of red and professional

      Say goodbye to Lenin, say goodbye to that red and specialized era.

      If we don't talk about doctrine, we only talk about human nature. For an ordinary person, the direction of the empire may not have the joys and sorrows written in the history books. An individual has a personal touch.

      Although I haven't experienced it, the era of red and professional with ideals and beliefs is indeed very beautiful. When I saw the helicopter flying to the sky with the statue of Lenin hanging,...

    • By Ara 2022-04-23 07:01:46

      Farewell to Lenin, Farewell to the era of red and professional

      Say goodbye to Lenin, say goodbye to that red and specialized era.

      If we don't talk about doctrine, we only talk about human nature. For an ordinary person, the direction of the empire may not have the joys and sorrows written in the history books. An individual has a personal touch.

      Although I haven't experienced it, the era of red and professional with ideals and beliefs is indeed very beautiful. When I saw the helicopter flying to the sky with the statue of Lenin hanging,...

    • By Nestor 2022-04-23 07:01:46

      Good Bye Lenin!

      Christina (Kathrin Sass) is a heartfelt supporter of socialist East Germany. Her husband has fled to West Germany, leaving her alone to raise her son Alex (Daniel Brühl). . In 1989, Alex took to the streets to parade and was arrested. Witnessing this scene, his mother fainted from a heart attack and was unconscious for a long time. When she woke up, the country she knew had changed—the Berlin Wall came down, and socialism in the GDR disintegrated.
      The doctor said that Christina could not...

    • By Tianna 2022-04-23 07:01:46

      goodbye lenin

      Mom wakes up and the whole world outside has changed. The doctor said that the mother can no longer be stimulated. But the socialism she spent her whole life on has been subverted, the Berlin Wall fell, Germany was unified, East Germany to be precise no longer existed. So the son created a world for his mother, to be precise, kept a world, the original East Germany. He went to the trash to find cans of Soviet food, and filmed fabricated news to show his mother on TV. Mom asked, what are you...

    • By Angie 2022-04-23 07:01:46

      How did East Germans adapt to their new life after the fall of the Berlin Wall?

      The teacher in the foreign journalism history class raised a question, "How did the East Germans adapt to their new life after the fall of the Berlin Wall?"

      Thinking of Christina in "Goodbye Lenin", a small room of tens of square meters is the new Germany she faces. in her ideal world. The East Germany outside has changed beyond recognition, interrupted by fast-paced life, assimilated by burgers and cola, imported food is also flooding the shelves, and the long queues at the bank gate...

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    • By Ericka 2023-09-17 22:19:17

      So dark and absurd humor, so many similar shots, so many things that seem absurd now, but when we were in the past, it ended so naturally, so we should accept it as a matter of course. I guess that Lenin destroyed humanity like this. People always have to be persistent and aware. For the country that the male protagonist ideal, it may never appear. PS: That daughter looks like Emily Thorne in Revenge, like...

    • By Jesse 2023-08-12 21:05:39

      A story similar to a beautiful life, but closer to us, this is not just a beautiful lie, but also the real truth we want, the closed socialism that we are familiar with full of nostalgic elements, Still capitalism full of freshness and desire, this film offers one of the most beautiful possibilities we can match, albeit only one...

    • By Amber 2023-07-22 07:55:55

      This woman is so entangled and too tm. How much does this piece have to...

    • By Jana 2023-07-08 08:03:42

      History can be assumed, just as where life stops and the movie begins. When standing on one foot in West Germany, I was forced to look back and see a different kind of East Germany; under a different kind of warmth, I saw a different kind of...

    • By Jefferey 2023-07-02 00:59:21

      Goodbye, Lenin, belongs to the last century, evil, despotism, deception and idealism, this is really a great work of...

    Movie plot

    After her husband fled to West Germany, Christina, a member of the enthusiastic East German Unity Socialist Party, devoted all her energy to her party and her pair of children, and raised them in strict accordance with the requirements of socialism. In the fall of 1989, Christina suddenly had a heart attack and passed out. During the time she was unconscious, Germany was turned upside down: the Berlin Wall fell, and her beloved...
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    Behind the scenes gags

    The house where the "Coca-Cola News Bulletin Board" in the film is located was the one where Billy Wilder filmed "The Romance of the Jade Girl" in 1961.
    CGI technology was used extensively in "German Europeanization" Berlin. Although most of the films were shot in the former East Berlin, most of the films took place after the fall of the Berlin Wall and began Europeanization after a major riot. Many western product advertisements in the...
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    Movie quotes

    • Denis: Denis

      [handing Alex a video cassette]

      Denis: It's my best production ever. A pity your Mom will be the only audience...

    • Sigmund Jähn: Where to?

      Alexander Kerner: Wannsee

      Sigmund Jähn: I know what you think. Everyone does. But I'm not him.

    • Dr. Wagner: You must protect her from any kind of excitement. And I do mean any kind, Mr. Kerner.

      Alexander Kerner: Any kind of excitement.

      Dr. Wagner: It would be life-threatening.

      Alexander Kerner: And this here?

      [Shows the doctor a newspaper reading "Good Luck, Germany. Yes to Reunification"]

      Alexander Kerner: Wouldn't you call this exciting?