Good Bye Lenin! (German, Subtitled in English) R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 10, 2004
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Katrin Sass & Daniel Brühl | |
Performer: | Chulpan Khamatova, Alexander Beyer, Florian Lukas & Maria Simon | |
Directed by | Wolfgang Becker | |
Screenwriting by | Wolfgang Becker & Bernd Lichtenberg | |
Composition by | Yann Tiersen | |
Produced by | Stefan Arndt | |
Director of Photography: | Martin Kukula |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Watching Becker invent new challenges and new solutions in scene after scene makes Good Bye, Lenin! a joyous show, blurred by tears of sympathy.
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Denver Post
Rating: 4/5 --
A funny movie that rises above farce to the level of sophisticated satire.
Orlando Sentinel
Rating: B --
Serves up an odd but intriguing situation.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
[E]ngaging and bittersweet....A wonderful film unto itself about a world unto itself...
Los Angeles Times
There are a few bright jokes and sharp observations in the sentimental LENIN...
New York Times
[A] funny and intermittently sharp German satire that musters gentle nostalgia for East German communism while mocking the not-so-distant past.
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/4 --
The real story is how ideologies melt when it comes to affairs of the heart. In that way, the movie has an appeal that goes way beyond its country's borders.
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Scene-Stealers.com
Product Description:
This culture-shock comedic drama takes a look at life in East Germany before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Alex (Daniel Bruhl) dreams of being an astronaut while his high-strung mother (Katrin Sass) works tirelessly as a teacher and state official. She's so vehemently pro-socialist that when she glimpses her son getting arrested during a political protest, she falls into a heart-attack-induced coma and stays there through the raising of the iron curtain and the influx of West German capitalism. When she suddenly wakes up, Alex decides he has to keep the country's sudden change a secret from her, in order to prevent her weak heart from giving out at the shock. Lots of subterfuge and comedy ensues, and what ultimately emerges is a touching parallel between the outward economic change and Alex's own inability to grow up and let go of his own mother-dominated past for an uncertain future with his cute Russian girlfriend (Chulpan Khamatova). Director Wolfgang Becker cleverly incorporates archival news footage of the space race, riots, soccer matches, the fall of the wall, and the arrival of consumer goods en masse. The score by Yann Tiersen (AMELIE) is effective, and Sass earns high marks as Alex's keenly intelligent, heartbroken mother.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 117,669
- UPC: 043396046405
- Shipping Weight: 0.3/lbs (approx)
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