Goodbye, Lenin! is the 2003 German tragicomi film, directed by Wolfgang Becker. The players included Daniel BrÃÆ'¼hl, Katrin SaÃÆ'Ÿ, Chulpan Khamatova, and Maria Simon. Most of the scenes were taken at Karl-Marx-Allee in Berlin and around Plattenbauten near Alexanderplatz.
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Plot
The film was in East Berlin, from October 1989 until after German reunification a year later.
Alex lives with his sister, Ariane, his mother, Christiane, and Ariane's daughter, Paula. (Apparently his father abandoned his family and fled to the West in 1978.) Christiane has been a staunch supporter of the ruling United Socialist Party (Partai) Partai Sosialis Party. On the other hand, Alex is disgusted by the dark celebrations of the 40th anniversary of East Germany and participates in anti-government demonstrations. There he meets a girl, but they are separated by Volkspolizei before they can introduce themselves properly.
When Christiane saw Alex arrested, she suffered a near-fatal heart attack and went into a coma. While visiting his mother at the hospital, Alex meets the girl he meets in a demonstration, Lara, a nurse from the Soviet Union who takes care of his mother. Alex and Lara immediately began dating and developing close ties.
Shortly after, the Berlin Wall collapsed, Erich Honecker resigned from his post, and capitalism came to East Berlin. Alex lost his job as a TV repairman but was hired by a West German cable company. Alex is paired with Denis Domaschke, a West German filmmaker who aspires to whom Alex quickly becomes a good friend. When Ariane university closes, he works at the Burger King restaurant.
After eight months, Christiane awoke from her coma, but she was very weak and her doctor warned that any shock could cause another heart attack, possibly fatal. Alex realizes that the recent discovery of events will be too much for him to bear and decide to maintain the illusion that things were like before in the German Democratic Republic. To do so, Alex, Ariane, and Lara restored their western decor to the decor they previously had in their mother's bedroom, which is now sleeping in a family apartment, dressed in their old clothes, and repackaged new Western products in Germany The old east. jars. Their fraud succeeded, though more complicated when Christiane occasionally witnessed strange events, such as a giant Coca-Cola advertising banner in an adjacent building that she saw through her bedroom window. With Denis's help, Alex edited the old East German news tapes and made a fake report to explain this strange event.
Christiane finally gained strength and wandered outside one day while Alex was asleep. He saw all his neighbor's old furniture piled on the street, advertisements for Western companies, and Lenin statues flown by helicopters. Alex and Ariane quickly took him home and showed him a false report that East Germany is now accepting refugees from the West following the severe economic downturn there.
Soon after, the family went to check their dachas in the countryside at Christiane's suggestion. While they were there with Lara's new girlfriend and Ariane, Rainer, Christiane revealed his own secret: Her husband runs away because the Party is getting more and more oppressive, and the plan is the rest of the family to join him. Christiane, fearing the government would take Alex and Ariane from him if anything went wrong, chose to stay. When he regretted the decision, Christiane relapsed and was taken back to the hospital.
Alex meets his father, Robert, and convinces him to see Christiane for the last time, stating he must say he is moved to return to the East to see his dying wife. Under pressure to reveal the truth about the fall of the East, Alex creates the last segment of false news, convincing a taxi driver (who resembles the cosmonaut Sigmund JÃÆ'¤hn, the first German in space and the heroine of Alex's childhood) to act false news reports as a new leader East Germany and gave a speech about opening the border to the West. However, it is suggested that Christiane already knows the truth (Lara tries to convince her of true political developments on the same day). Nevertheless, he reacts affectionately to his son's efforts, without mentioning anything.
Christiane died two days later: He lives longer than the GDR, dying three days after the official full German reunification. Alex, Ariane, Lara, Denis, and Robert scattered his ashes in the wind using Alex's old toy rocket made with his father during his childhood.
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Cast
Soundtrack
The movie score was composed by Yann Tiersen, except for the "Summer 78" version sung by Claire Pichet. In style, this music is very similar to Tiersen's earlier work on the soundtrack for AmÃÆ' © lie . One composition of the piano, "Comptine d'un autre à © à © tÃÆ'  © Ã,: L'aprÃÆ'¨s-midi", is used in both films.
Some famous GDR songs are featured. Two children, members of the Ernst ThÃÆ'¤lmann Pioneer Organization, sang Unsere Heimat (Our Homeland). Christiane's friends (live in the same building) follow with Bau Auf! The smell of Auf! (Build Up! Build Up!), Another national anthem from Free German Youth. The latest fake news release with Sigmund JÃÆ'¤hn features the national anthem of the GDR national anthem, Auferstanden aus Ruinen .
Ostalgie
Alexander created a fictional newscast to commemorate the previous lifestyle of East Germany and the communist environment. He goes out of his way to use East German products to cheat his mother like Spreewald Gherkins and although this is all for his mother, you can also say that he created a fantasy where he wants to live. Alexander lived his life. live with this barrier; therefore a drastic change is hard for him unlike his brother Ariane. Ariane adopted new Western ideals and lifestyles, but Alex's longing feeling was ostalgie. Ostalgie is a neologism for nostalgia for communist past which is a common theme in Goodbye, Lenin!
A real moment when Alex showed signs of ostalgie was when he began to question Western changes. For example, he is angry when his mother's currency can not be converted to Deutschemarks because he passed the time limit of two days. He is angry at the new Western rules imposed that he is still unfamiliar. Another example is the video Alex made for his mother. The films are a sign in which his philosophy stands throughout the situation and how he hopes peaceful socialism is recognized as a better way of life unlike capitalism which takes over abruptly.
The director, Wolfgang Becker, deliberately left politics and great negative details to draw attention to the tone of nostalgia. He wanted to focus on the personal aspects of the East German family and how, even though they were in a communist environment, they focused more on tradition and family-related matters. One theme that remains, is the realization of candor in the mother's shock of seeing her son beaten; police brutality became the reality of the socialist system that he seems to be supporting all along.
Finally in 2004, the New York Times commented on "Ostalgie" embodied in a town called EisenhÃÆ'¼ttenstadt. It became popular because Goodbye, Lenin! that mimics Christiane's bedroom. It gives a lot of light to the ostalgie situation, as well as the movie.
cinematic error
There was a scene where Alex's friend wore a shirt that looked as if it was a T-shirt Matrix . The Matrix was released in 1999, when the film took place in 1990 and therefore caused confusion. Though it looks as though it is a Matrix t-shirt, it is a shirt that was released in 1990 that looks very similar to a trime fan's Matrix. It has similar colors and rough fonts, but only graphs with similar code.
There are some famous cinematic errors in Good Bye, Lenin! In one scene a man wore a DFB training shirt from 1996, when he watched the 1990 World Cup. There was a Berlin tram called GT6N featured in one scene, which was not introduced until 1995, but in the movie it was the summer of 1990.
Unlike what some people think, the bronze statue in this film has nothing to do with the granite statue previously found in Lenin Square. The demolition of the bronze statue of Lenin did not begin until November 8, 1991. In the scene with the statue of Lenin, Ariane dropped a shopping bag from the Berlin chain, Reichelt, but they look like it from 2000. This also happened in the movie with repackaged package "Jacob's Coronation". Alex put the contents of Jacobs coffee into the GDR pack, but Western coffee packaging was launched in the late '90s. A bottle of red wine Blanchet was shown during the scene, but when the wall collapsed, there was only Blanchet's white wine. Similarly many western products like Coca-Cola are packed with modern packaging or advertised with modern advertising. When Alex goes to the supermarket to buy pickles, the employee marks Pepsi's case. The Pepsi logo is a modern logo, and not a logo from the early 90s.
The fake Sigmund JÃÆ'¤hn was wearing the uniform of a lieutenant colonel, when he became Major General at the time Alex tried to imitate.
When Alex talked to one of Christiane's old friends before his coma, the coffee pot on the table changed the rate between the shots. When Ariane was checking his father's letters to his mother, the letter was addressed to Christine and not Christiane.
Christiane Kerner was ventilated by tracheostomy during a coma, but when he woke up and the machine was removed there was no scar on his neck. When Alex visits his mother at the hospital, a sign of a modern green exit is also present.
Reception
The film received strong positive reviews, holding a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Empire delivers a four-star movie of five with a verdict, "Cute little idea, moving and - gasping for breath! - even makes you think."
Awards and nominations
- BAFTA Awards
- Best Movies not in English (nominated - lost to In The World )
- CÃÆ' Â © sar Award
- CÃÆ' Â © Award for Best Film from the European Union ( won )
- European Film Awards
- Best Actor (BrÃÆ'¼hl, won )
- Best Actress (SaÃÆ'Ÿ, nominated - lost to Charlotte Rampling, Swimming Pool )
- Best Director (Becker, nominated - lost to Lars von Trier, Dogville )
- Best Movie ( won )
- Best Screen Writer (Lichtenberg, won )
- German Film Awards
- Extraordinary Actor (BrÃÆ'¼hl, won )
- Best Actress (SaÃÆ'Ÿ, nominated - lost to Hannelore Elsner, Mein letzter Film )
- Extraordinary Direction (Becker, won )
- Outstanding screenwriter (Lichtenberg, won )
- Extraordinary Editing (Adam, won )
- Extraordinary Movies ( won )
- Extraordinary Music (Tiersen, won )
- Outstanding Production Design (Holler, won )
- Extraordinary Supporting Actor (Luke, won )
- Extraordinary Supporting Actress (Simon, nominated - lost to Corinna Harfouch, Aunt Blocksberg )
- Golden Globe Awards
- Best Foreign Language Film (nominated - lost to Osama )
- Goya Awards
- Best European Movie (Becker, won )
- Circle of London Critics
- Best Foreign Language Movies ( won )
- Empire the magazine "100 Best Movies of the World Cinema" in 2010
- Ranked # 91
See also
- Spreewald gherkins, one of the foods Christiane wants
- Ostalgie, nostalgia for East Germany
References
Further reading
Kapczynski, Jennifer M. (2007). "Nostalgic Negotiations: The GDR's past in Berlin is in Germany and Goodbye, Lenin! ". The Germanic Review . 82 (1): 78-100. doi: 10.3200/GERR.82.1.78-100.
External links
- Official website (Germany)
- Official website (US)
- Goodbye, Lenin! on IMDb
- Goodbye, Lenin! in AllMovie
- Goodbye, Lenin! in Box Office Mojo
- Goodbye, Lenin! in Rotten Tomatoes
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