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Actors: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Good bye, Lenin! |
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Alex is faced with a tough call once his mother wakes up from a coma eight months after the fall of the Berlin wall in East Germany. Should he break the news and triger a turmoil of mixed emotions in his socialist mother's heart or should he try to conceal the current political developments and offer his mother the excitement-free time the doctor recommended? Despite his sister's discontent, Alex chooses the second and makes ingenious use of his resourcefulness to constantly re-create the day to day reality as it used to be before the fall of Lenin.
--Anna Maria Delinasiou, Resident Scholar
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Alex, and his mother and sister live happily in their German home. During a raid, Alex is arrested and his mother gets a heart attack. When Alex is freed, she is in a coma. Throughout that time, Alex gets a job as a satellite repairman, his sister works in the Drive-Thru at Burger King, and the Berlin Wall falls down. Alex even falls in love with a nurse. When his mother finally wakes up, the doctor asks him to not excite her. So that she doesn't find out about the Berlin Wall, and Coca Cola, he makes fake news shows with his friend.
--Estefan Ellison, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Polit/Social/Race/Gender activism
Yes
Plotlet:
- communist revolution!
Family, caring for sick?
Yes
Who is sick?
- Mother
because he/she is
- basically "out of it"
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- small businessman
- engineer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) very skinny
- (man) muscular
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Genius
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- (woman) very skinny
- (woman) average
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Main Adversary
Identity:
- none
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- blue collar
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Body type
- (woman) ample chest and buttocks
unclothed?
- chest and buttocks
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Germany
Misc setting
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- encouraged
- in awe
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
- seeing full frontal--men
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- German
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- None
- Some foul language
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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