Good Bye Lenin!

Alex and his sister have been raised to be good East German patriots by their partv.-1oyal mother, Butthe freedom hungry atmosphere of the late eighties rubs off on Alex and, during
a demonstration, he is arrested by the police. Duetothe shock of this, his mother suffers a heart attack that puts
her in a coma for several months. When she wakes up, she has no idea that the wall has come down, Fearing that such overwhelming news would trigger another heart attack, Alex does everything in his powers to maintain the illusion,
The medium of television plays an important role in Good Bye, Lenin!. As a tool ofthe GDR regime, it creates icons and emphasizes the greatness of the state, Afterthe GDR collapse, the TV mediates the new world order and, as a
satellite dish salesman, Alex provides his liberated compatriots with a window to the West. Television is also Alex's most precious tool in his efforts to make his mother believe that the GDR still exists, With invaluable assistance from his wannabe moviemaker colleague Denis, he fabricates TV news that satisfactorily explains the odd events his mother notices. After all, the invasion from the West led by Coca Cola is hard to miss - even from a bed in a grey East Berlin suburb,
Good Bye, Lenin! has taken Germany by storm, plucking most ofthe prizes at the German Film Awards as well as winning over the hearts of even the stiffest of reviewers at this year's Berlin Film Festival.
LOVE GUSTAFSSON

Medverkande
Daniel Brühl,Katrin Sab,Chulpan Khamatova: Producent
Stefan Arndt: Manus
Bernd Lichtenberg: Foto
Martin Kukula: Musik
Yann Tiersen: Talat språk
German