Good Bye, Lenin!

2003, Rated R, 118 min. Directed by Wolfgang Becker. Starring Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Simon, Florian Lukas and Alexander Beyer.

Howson Foreign Film Series: Set during the final days before the fall of the Berlin Wall, this film’s comedy rests on one turn of events: A loyal East German mother (Sass) collapses in the street at a demonstration and falls into a coma that lasts several months – enough for the wall to come down and for Germany to reunify. Read a full review of Good Bye, Lenin!.
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