 Good Bye, Lenin!
Starring: Daniel Bruhl, Katrin Sass, Maria Simon, Chulpan Khamatova, Florian Lukas, Alexander Beyer, Michael Gwisdek
Directed by: Wolfgang Becker
Screenplay by: Bernd Lichtenberg
Release Date: February 27, 2004
MPAA Rating: R for language and sexuality.
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
 Domestic: $4,064,200 (5.1%)
Foreign: $75,320,680 (94.9%)
Total: $79,384,880 (Worldwide)
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 Tagline: East Germany lives on. Honestly!
October, 1989 was a bad time to fall into a coma if you lived in East Germany – and this is precisely what happens to Alex’s proudly socialist mother. Alex has a big problem on his hands when she suddenly awakens eight months later. Her heart is so weak that any shock might kill her. And what could be more shocking than the fall of the Berlin Wall and the triumph of capitalism in her beloved East Germany?
To save his mother, Alex transforms the family apartment into an island of the past, a kind of socialist-era museum where his mother is lovingly duped into believing that nothing has changed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam as Alex’s sister and selected neighbors are recruited to maintain the elaborate ruse – and keep her believing that Lenin really did win after all!
Five years after his award-winning Das Leben ist Eine Baustelle (Life is All You Get), filmmaker Wolfgang Becker presents Goodbye Lenin!! Fast and funny, intriguing and touching, Becker tells a story that is as unique as it irresistible, an alternative history to that of the recent German past: a human story of the reunification not only of an entire nation, but of a family living in East Berlin.
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