Goodbye Lenin! (2002)

Product Details

Format : PAL
Binding : DVD
EAN : 5060002835678
Product Group : DVD
Region Code : 2
Release Date : 2007-09-03
Studio : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

ASIN : B000VRY81O

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Customer Reviews

lost in translation (2008-01-15)

Subtitles dreadful. If you don't speak German, you won't really know what this film's about, and the characters will appear to be saying inexplicable things. It is however one of the three or four really good films to come out of Germany in the last 25 years.

An honest film about lying (2007-12-05)

Although marketed as an all-out comedy, Goodbye, Lenin! is in many ways more of a feelgood tragicomedy about the nature of lies rather than a laugh-a-minute sidesplitter. Certainly the premise has all the makings of farce as East German Daniel Bruhle has to go to increasingly desperate lengths to keep the news that communism and the Berlin Wall have both fallen from his Party activist mother when she emerges from a coma for fear the shock will cause a fatal heart attack. Since the pace of change to Western values and fashions has been so rapid that means finding their apartment's long discarded drab furniture, seeking out now discontinued East German brands of pickles and coffee and even faking DDR news reports with his fellow satellite TV installer as he tries to recreate the old East Germany within the borders of his mother's bedroom (not so easy with Coca Cola setting up shop just across the road), in the process gradually creating the more reasonable DDR he wished had existed. The laughs are there but less frequent than you'd expect, and often underlined with the sadness of a country suddenly forced to confront years of deprivation and betrayal: his sister's revelation of the first words their long-absent father spoke to her is initially funny but genuinely tragic on reflection, and the film manages to pull off both reactions without over-milking them. Nor does it sugar-coat the ending, opting for something rather more affecting than a simple Happy Ever After. Chalk up another quiet winner for the 21st Century German film industry Renaissance.The only real extra is the rather good German theatrical trailer.

Goodbye Lenin, hope to see you soon! Very soon! (2007-11-07)

In these days of the October Revolution Anniversary one can not help think the gains of socialism. After the fall of the socialism in Soviet Union and socialist Europe the humanity is in the grip of middle age terror. Millions die because of wars, hunger and diesases that can be prevented. This film has a cute way of telling a surreal story about the last of German Democratic Republic a.k.a DDR. In the film a communist woman activist suffers from a deadly shock and her son tries to hide from her the fact that her dream heaven DDR does not exist anymore. The boy tries to create a surreal atmospher where Westerners flee to join East, the communists open the Berlin Wall etc. When you watch the film and see what capitalism is like the logical thing to happen is socialism to triumph. But logic is not stronger than George Bush Senior, Helmut Kohl et al.One has to fight for thr right and the logical one also. So goodbye Lenin for now. We are expecting you soon! Very soon!

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