
East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the DDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the DDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot.... (Full plot summary below)
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East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the DDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the DDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot.
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| San Francisco ChronicleRuthe SteinI don't claim to have seen every entry from around the world, but it's hard to imagine five better than this deliciously offbeat comedy, as wildly inventive as anything Billy Wilder ever conceived. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThis is a funny, sad, stunningly smart movie about the end of movies, made in Tsai's inimitable, unblinking style. No movie lover should miss it. |
| Uruguay TotalEnrique BuchichioHay varios aspectos en los cuales conectar con esta película, al punto de que casi nadie permanecerá indiferente. |
| european-films.netBoyd van HoeijAn enjoyable comedy about keeping a big thing secret from someone and an interesting drama about family ties and values and politics. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderDirector Wolfgang Becker can claim the film's depth as its greatest achievement. He has taken an absurd situation, a silly premise, and added weight to the humor. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIts geopolitical lessons smacked of banality. |
| Denver PostMichael BoothWatching Becker invent new challenges and new solutions in scene after scene makes Good Bye, Lenin! a joyous show, blurred by tears of sympathy. |
| Denver Rocky Mountain NewsRobert DenersteinServes up an odd but intriguing situation. |
| Seattle TimesMoira MacDonaldA film that's ostensibly about politics ... turns out to be a love story. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldIn a disarmingly entertaining fashion, this multiaward-winning German bittersweet comedy seems to encapsulate all the emotion and drama of that profound geopolitical event. |