It’s apparently very important that this film is Good Bye Lenin, and not Goodbye Lenin. I can’t say why really – not because I’d give the plot away, but I simply don’t know. It’s set in the months either side of the Berlin wall coming down, and a wonderfully communist mother who goes into a coma, and comes out in a new free world, the reality of which might harm her.
The lengths her son and his friends go to, to keep her under this disillusion are wonderful. An entertaining film – if a tad longer than it needed to be. It probably told me more about life in East Germany than I’d ever have otherwise known (although this book might be enlightening – it’s made the Samual Johnson shortlist).