Goodbye, Lenin! | 2003 | Germany | Wolfgang Becker
8.2 / 10
"Somehow my scheme had taken on a life of its own.
The GDR I created for her increasingly became the one I might have wished for."
"Somehow my scheme had taken on a life of its own.
The GDR I created for her increasingly became the one I might have wished for."
Goodbye Lenin is a clever political satire that takes place in East Germany in 1989.
It's not brilliant, it's not mind blowing, it doesn't use any kind of amazing cinema techniques, and still, I love every second of it.
Its a humble film regarding humble times and that's how it should be.
More than a piece about the fall of communism, Goodbye Lenin welcomes us to a certain nostalgia for an East Germany than no longer exists. It reminds us that capitalism did not bring only good. That was for me the easy part. The challenging one was to remind us of that without romanticizing the past.
One of the highlights of the film is when Alex creates fake news reports using old tapes from East German news broadcasts. The second one is the amazing soundtrack by yann tiersen.
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