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Date(s) - 20/04/2014
7:45 pm - 11:00 pm

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Markus' Home

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As has been said before movies are cool and at this event we’ll be watching Goodbye Lenin,a German movie from 2003, starring Daniel Brühl.

We’ll get together at my place, watch the movie, have a few drinks, have some laughs and discuss the movie afterwards. All in German, of course ;).

A summary taken from about.com

It’s 1989. Alex Kerner (Daniel Brühl) and his single, divorced mom Christine (Katrin Sass) live in a tiny 79 sq.m. apartment in East Berlin. Shortly before the Berlin Wall falls and East Germany (the “DDR”) becomes history, Alex’s mother, a dedicated party activist and DDR supporter, has a heart attack and falls into a coma—and misses the triumph of capitalism. Eight months later, her miraculous awakening and recovery present Alex with a dilemma: How to protect his mother’s weakened heart from the shock of Coca-Cola, Burger King, Audis and Mercedes.

Good Bye Lenin
Daniel Brühl has to
recreate the DDR.

Photo: X Verleih

 

His efforts to protect her arise partly out of guilt. After all, his loyal communist mother collapsed after seeing him participating in an anti-DDR demonstration. But he quickly discovers that his plan to protect mom by creating an artificial “DDR” within their small apartment faces huge obstacles. One of them is a huge Coca-Cola banner hanging within sight of their apartment window. (Talk about product placement!) Another is where to find all the old East German products that vanished within months of the demise of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik. His efforts to keep all the historical changes from his mother are both funny and poignant. In the process, Alex reinvents history and creates an entirely new version of what happened while his mother was in a coma. One of the funnier tricks Alex uses to do this is a fake TV news broadcast.

 

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