Good bye Lenin!

Good bye Lenin!

DVD - 2004

Alex's proud, socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam.

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Subjects
Mothers and sons > Germany > Drama.
Germany > History > Unification, 1990 > Drama.
Feature films.
Foreign films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Feature films
Foreign films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment [2004]
Language
German
English
Corporate Authors
X Filme Creative Pool, Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Corporate Authors
X Filme Creative Pool (production company), Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Other Authors
Wolfgang Becker, 1954- (film director), Bernd Lichtenberg (screenwriter), Stefan Arndt (film producer), Daniel Brühl, 1978- (actor), Katrin Sass, 1956-, Chulpan Khamatova, 1975-, Maria Simon, 1976-, Florian Lukas, 1973-
Edition
Special edition
Item Description
Videodisc release of a 2003 motion picture.
Released in US by Sony Pictures Classics, Bavaria Film International.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD-video; region 1; anamorphic widescreen presentation, 1.85:1; 5.1 Dolby Digital.
Audience
MPAA rating: R; brief language and sexuality.
Awards
Deutscher Filmpreis, 2003: Audience Award, German film of the year ; Film award in gold: Outstanding feature film ; Outstanding individual achievement: actor (Brühl) ; Outstanding individual achievement: direction ; Outstanding individual achievement: supporting actor (Lukas) ; Outstanding individual achievement: editing ; Outstanding individual achievement: music ; Outstanding individual achievement: production design.
Production Credits
Director of photography, Martin Kukula ; editor, Peter R. Adam ; music, Yann Tiersen.
ISBN
9781404953796
  • Special features include: Commentaries by director, actors ; theatrical trailer ; 10 deleted scenes ; Lenin learns to fly visual-effects featurette ; making-of featurette ; uncut "Aktuelle Kamera" broadcasts.
Review by Library Journal Review

Shortly before the crumbling of the Berlin Wall, a loyal Communist suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma at the sight of her son being beaten by riot police. Eventually waking up eight months later, the dazed woman is kept in the dark about German reunification because doctors claim the shock could kill her. Even for an admittedly diverting screwball comedy, Wolfgang Becker's film is pretty farfetched in its reliance on flimsy, transparent deceptions. For larger collections. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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