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Good Bye, Lenin!
Directed by Wolfgang Becker
Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack. From TMDB
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Good Bye, Lenin! is a 2003 comedy drama film, directed by Wolfgang Becker, starring Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass and Chulpan Khamatova.
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- posts span Jan 30, 2023 to Nov 1, 2026
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60 of 61 · most liked firstDead people. Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, mostly of people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks (or maybe give 'em a final fuck you). There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself. • **[Suchir Balaji](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0el3r2nlko)** whistleblower • **[Wolfgang…
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite film for each year of the 2000s: 2000: Le Goût des autres (The Taste of Others) 2001: Amélie 2002: 8 femmes 2003: Good Bye, Lenin! 2004: Dear Frankie 2005: Grizzly Man 2006: The Fall 2007: 2 Days in Paris 2008: 35 rhums 2009: Vengeance *favorite /= best What are yours? #Filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →This would be easier for me with live theatre than film but: The Bang Straws 'Dissolution' Trilogy Touch Sanitation Swinburne's Pasiphae Good Bye Lenin Tommy Thelma & Louise Metropolis Greener Grass Mary Poppins Toy Story 2 Do Revenge The Wrath of Becky Little Shop of Horrors The Inbetweeners Movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Name your fav historical film. Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
neutral · AI labelView post →The film doesn't need to overstate the authoritarianism, but neither is it characterized by the so-called "Ostalgie" for East German embodied in films like Good Bye, Lenin! (2003). The Petzold film I have responded to most strongly so far... 4/4
neutral · AI labelView post →For #AprilFilmChallenge for @omacolt.bsky.social 01/04 : A film set in a location you would like to go to... Good Bye Lenin! (2003), never been to much of Germany so why not... weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2023/05/04/f...
neutral · AI labelView post →📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 10 Watch a movie featuring someone who featured in this year's Oscar’s In Memoriam section. This week I watched: Lola Belle de Jour Mr. Klein Beau Pere Days of Heaven Good Bye, Lenin! A Cop La Dolce Vita Sarah's Key
neutral · AI labelView post →My review of Good Bye Lenin! on Letterboxd boxd.it/5hrOGt
neutral · AI labelView post →Name a Foreign (to you) Film. 🇩🇪 Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
neutral · AI labelView post →Guy who has only seen Good Bye, Lenin, watching his second movie: Getting a lot of 'Good Bye, Lenin' vibes from this...
neutral · AI labelView post →#nightmusic 🇫🇷 Born in Brittany. Piano at 4. Violin at 6. Then electric guitar. His film scores include Good Bye, Lenin! and Amélie. “We’ll be [touring Europe] in unconventional spaces, sometimes for free...we believe music should not revolve around profit.” Night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytba...
neutral · AI labelView post →I love the ‘03 movie Good-Bye Lenin! (if you haven’t seen it, do yourself a favor), but TIL one plot point—the difficulty & nostalgia for ex-East Germans in the 90s to get GDR state-enterprise food products—isn’t really true, and many GDR foods still exist www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/...
positive · AI labelView post →Capping off conspiracy theory sharing day with Good Bye, Lenin! ... which is truly a conspiracy all its own. Incredible how hard it is to find this movie. ... only on YouTube apparently. youtu.be/0NaPk07eyAU?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally watched Good Bye Lenin. A film about suddenly losing your consensus reality, your country, your society in almost an instant.
positive · AI labelView post →was watching a movie (Good Bye Lenin) last weekend that was filmed in 2003 but looking back at 1991 Germany. The contrast of that movie depicting life 12 years earlier while knowing the film was 22 years old hit me so hard. Living in 2003, it felt like Berlin Wall was a lifetime earlier.
neutral · AI labelView post →Last night, or more accurately, after midnight, I caught a viewing of Good Bye Lenin! This extremely sweet film explores the bittersweet nostalgia for a lost era, revealing our universal desire to cling to memories of a fading past
positive · AI labelView post →And they just found out about film "Good Bye, Lenin!", which is already more than 20 years old.
neutral · AI labelView post →Catching up tomorrow with #Bales2025FilmChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky But here's Day 12... A movie that warms your heart... … Good Bye Lenin! (2003) as a son, rebuilds the Berlin Wall for his mum for all the best reasons... weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2023/05/04/f...
neutral · AI labelView post →Haha, I oddly initially confused that with the film “Good Bye, Lenin!”
neutral · AI labelView post →Good Bye Lenin! - a film I’ve never seen available on streaming - is currently free on Prime. Happy days.
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh yeah, It's a great song! I could have sworn I heard it in the film Good Bye Lenin! but it wasn't in that. Turns out it was in Atomic Blonde. There's a Peugeot car advert using a cover version on telly at the moment, and it's not a bad cover either!
neutral · AI labelView post →There was the movie "Good Bye Lenin!" where they had to pretend that East Germany was still around for a mom that was in a coma when it fell. www.imdb.com/title/tt0301...
neutral · AI labelView post →name: Fran nickname: frangipan age: 39 sign: aquarius currently: beached on cushioned surface w. my foot in a cast watching King of the Hill fav colour: no fave fav book: Oblomov / I Capture the Castle fav film: Good Bye Lenin fav show: Black Books / Nighty Night fav genre: dark comedy post a gif!
neutral · AI labelView post →A fab feel good movie... Good Bye Lenin! (2003) weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2023/05/04/f...
neutral · AI labelView post →Why has no one made this into a film, like a cross between Good Bye Lenin and the early part of The Death of Stalin
neutral · AI labelView post →Just finished watching "Good Bye Lenin" for at least the fifth time. With each watching my comprehension of spoken German has improved and I understand a little more. Each time, the movie just tears me up, in both pronunciations of the word. It has a personal resonance.
positive · AI labelView post →it occurs to me that there is a reverse hauntology movie: Good Bye, Lenin! the past comes back and is simply Too Much
neutral · AI labelView post →@sturdyalex.bsky.social Ostalgia: see Good Bye Lenin movie, first. It exists in the East, Romania that I know of. During communism, there was equal misery, equal is important. Then, there was guaranteed job and the housing for everyone. This is what propels ostalgia: no certainty, no predictibility
neutral · AI labelView post →The film score for Good Bye Lenin! is still one of the best. youtu.be/lYrAzeAgeSg?...
positive · AI labelView post →this makes me think of the wonderful movie Good Bye, Lenin! I have an odd affection for Abe Beame's New York and Kevin White's Boston in all their filthy, crumbling majesty because I was young then and the world had a distinctive flavor (not just the smog and cigarette smoke)
neutral · AI labelView post →this reminds me of the great movie Good Bye, Lenin www.imdb.com/title/tt0301...
neutral · AI labelView post →The same idea was played more poignantly in the film "Good Bye Lenin", but I couldn't work that into a sarky post as easily.
neutral · AI labelView post →Did you ever see the film "Good Bye, Lenin!"? It's similar to the current moment in that people are showing 47 what they want him to believe, even though the visuals are from years ago, or inherent countries, or AI. Great film. Very scary current moment.
positive · AI labelView post →Oh, I loved Good Bye Lenin. Really terrific film.
positive · AI labelView post →Wait has anyone made a film about this yet? Good Bye Lenin crossed with The Favourite?
neutral · AI labelView post →I dunno about this book, but Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) is a great film.
positive · AI labelView post →Fabulous film, if you haven't tried Good Bye, Lenin! its worth a viewing
positive · AI labelView post →Good Bye, Lenin! Is an amazing film. I also hope to never deal with that type of personal economic crisis due to world events. Anyways, I hope this diversion is entertaining
positive · AI labelView post →Happy to see that the website for the film GOODBYE LENIN is still up and running ....sort of www.sonyclassics.com/goodbye/
neutral · AI labelView post →Saw Good Bye Lenin with some folks last night. I don't speak enough German to follow a movie without subtitles, but I really should watch more German media. It's fascinating to listen to a language that I only know systematically. Unlike Swedish and English I'm HEARING the grammar and verb tenses.
neutral · AI labelView post →How the movie 'Good Bye, Lenin!' explains why the #AfD won a state election, why every European newsroom covered it, and why almost all of the analysis missed the point. What it means for the rest of Europe and what comes next. My views on Substack: wdebacker.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
neutral · AI labelView post →Aug 28 : Made in #Germany 🇩🇪 #Bales2026FilmChallenge #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬 #GoodByeLenin (2003) In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared. #DanielBrühl #KatrinSass
neutral · AI labelView post →Deleted the original skeet due to some errors. Anyway, things like that from Trump always makes me think of the 2003 German movie "Good Bye, Lenin!". www.imdb.com/title/tt0301...
neutral · AI labelView post →I believe that, quite simply, I feel more nostalgia for an event I did not experience — that space race — and that, whenever I recall this historic moment, no matter how many times I watch the film Good Bye, Lenin!, I always end up shedding a tear. (3/3)
positive · AI labelView post →Full program announced for German Film Festival, including opening night film, Wolfgang Becker’s (Good Bye, Lenin!) final film, BERLIN HERO (Der Held vom Bahnhof Friedrichstraße)
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched "Good Bye, Lenin!" again this evening. I've seen it a couple of times before but it's surprising how much I'd forgotten. It's a lovely film - if you don't know it then you should try and see it sometime. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_By...!
positive · AI labelView post →Watching #GoodByeLenin #movienight #movies #Letterboxd
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched German movie Good Bye Lenin on SBS. It's a cracker! It's at once a heart warming family movie, cunning deception, a peak into East Germany merging into a unified Germany, and love/duty triumphing over truth. A must watch […] [Original post on aus.social]
positive · AI labelView post →The remake of Good Bye, Lenin! will be awesome because we'll be toppling even more terrible statues, and the movie won't need subtitles. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_By...!
neutral · AI labelView post →I've suddenly thought of a way to reimagine the movie GOOD BYE LENIN!
neutral · AI labelView post →@iwriteok.bsky.social the last 2 years of Salazar's life as you described in this week's episode reminds me of the German film GOOD BYE LENIN where they recreate East Berlin in their mom's bedroom while she recovers from a stroke, based on movies you talk about I think you'd like it
neutral · AI labelView post →Daniel Brühl is on good form here in this entirely far-fetched but enjoyable drama. He and his sister “Ariane” (Maria Simon) live in East Germany with their proud citizen mother (Katrin Sass) who has just been awarded a special medal for her socialist public-mindedness. The thing is, it is 1989 and the whole Honecker regime is beginning to totter. People are on the streets and one of them just happens to be “Alex”. When he gets himself apprehended by the police on the street, she tries to…
positive · AI labelView post →My favorite movie is "Good Bye, Lenin!" But since my partner can't understand it in the original German, he insists on having the English subtitles on, which really messes with my mind.
positive · AI labelView post →Feb 25 : Communism #Bales2025FilmChallenge #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬 #GoodByeLenin (2003) In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared. [1/2]
neutral · AI labelView post →Feb 25 : Communism #Bales2025FilmChallenge #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬 #GoodByeLenin (2003) In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared. [2/2]
neutral · AI labelView post →I think the technical term would be, "Good Bye, Lenin!" because of the movie. 😁
neutral · AI labelView post →Good Bye Lenin? Great film!
positive · AI labelView post →@jchyip When I read this, one idea came up in my mind: Couldn't they put #trump in a rebuilt White House? Filled with actors telling him every day that he is the president? Something like the movie #goodbyelenin, but on bigger scale?
neutral · AI labelView post →I've always thought of "Good Bye Lenin!" as a melancholy movie and it is that, but I'm only now appreciating all the gags throughout. Like how this doctor has a frowny-face mug, but when you see the reverse shot, he's keeping the smiley-face for himself. 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →- TV movie remake of Hitchcock's Lifeboat, except it's from 1993, set in space, and stars Ron Silver (who also directed!), CCH Pounder and Robert Loggia. That's 1993's LIFEPOD. - Excellent dark German comedy GOOD BYE, LENIN! from 2003 /w Daniel Brühl - Gabe Kaplan vehicle NOBODY'S PERFEKT from 1981
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