I don't know, have u ever watched German movies? have you noticed what a solid structure they have? Goodbye Lenin is one of them. a historical drama story. it happens in 1990, when the Berlin was separated to two parts through a wall, the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the cold war. Alex Kerner (played by Daniel Bruhl) has opposite political views from his mother (Christiane) which is an ardent supporter of Socialist Unity Party of Germany that indicated her Communism and Marxist-Leninism ideologies. Alex's participating in an anti-government demonstration cause Christiane a heart attack and she falls into coma. she awakes but after 8 months and many events happened when she was at coma including Berlin wall's fall. her son, Alex, according to her doctor advise which says that she shouldn't face any shock because of her heart attack potential, isolate his mother from any news and let Christiane to stay in her beloved illusion country.
if you haven't watched it yet i advise you do not read rest of this post!
the ending is really wonderful. Christiane dies and with her death that ideology fades away, which is the title of movie, Goodbye Lenin, it could be Goodbye Marx or even Goodbye Communism!
i really appreciate Wolfgang Becker's job, director of this film, which has 13 award winning and 14 nominations, you can follow that on imdb! it also has a high-grade original music by Yann Tiersen, French minimalist musician and composer.
strongly recommended!
