Good Bye Lenin! Dir. Wolfgang Becker Ger 2003  Hailed as Best European Film at the Berlin Film Festival, Good Bye, Lenin! is a nostalgic look at life in the East under the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It's 1989 and Alex (Daniel Buhl) lives with his sister and devoutly socialist mother in East Berlin. Unexpectedly, his mother falls into a coma, and wakes up eight months later in a very different world indeed. While she slept the Berlin Wall was torn down, and before you can say 'unbridled capitalism' her daughter is happily working the drive-thru window at Burger King. Because of his mothers' delicate condition, Alex does everything he can to protect her from the shock of these historical events, and he concocts elaborate schemes to convince her that her beloved GDR still exists. Good Bye, Lenin! is a symbolic funeral for life under the GDR, not as it actually existed, but for the one some East Germans must have wished for. (121m)   Showtimes Links   Tues: 7:00, 9:30 Wed: 2:00, 4:20(special Bring Your Own Baby screening), 7:00, 9:30 Official Site Film information on IMDB.com
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