GOOD BYE, LENIN!
GOOD BYE, LENIN!
When Christiane Kerner, a committed GDR citizen fell into a coma in 1989, the world was still fine, at least for her. Shortly afterwards, all of Germany is celebrating the collapse of the Berlin Wall. And Christiane Kerner? Sleeps through the party! Months later she wakes up and there is great joy, but also the fear that the news of a reunified Germany sending her straight back into coma. So her son Alex decides a radical thing: He resurrects the GDR in their 79 square meter apartment. Wolfgang Becker tells a brilliant social satire in which you can't stop laughing, at the same time the film reflects on what was lost in the way reunification took place. This film made Daniel Brühl become a superstar overnight and became one of the biggest box office hits in German film history.
Text: Joshua Jádi
Bernd Lichtenberg, Wolfgang Becker
Martin Kukula
Wolfgang Schukraft
Lothar Holler
Alex DANIEL BRÜHL
Mutter KATRIN SAß
Lara CHULPAN KHAMATOVA
Ariane MARIA SIMON
Denis FLORIAN LUKAS
Rainer ALEXANDER BEYER
Vater (Robert Kerner) BURGHART KLAUßNER
Frau Schäfer CHRISTINE SCHORN
Direktor Klapprath MICHAEL GWISDEK
Wolfgang Becker, - Foto: Gerhard Kassner
Wolfgang Becker was born 1954 in Westphalia. He has won numerous national and international awards for his films SCHMETTERLINGE (BUTTERFLIES), BLUTWURSTWALZER (Tatort), KINDERSPIELE (CHILD’S PLAY), CELEBIDACHE - THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN, DAS LEBEN IST EINE BAUSTELLE (LIFE IS ALL YOU GET), GOOD BYE, LENIN!, BALLERO, KRANKES HAUS (SICK HOUSE) and ICH UND KAMINSKI (ME AND KAMINSKI).
In addition to his work as author and director, Becker has been teaching at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie (dffb), the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM).
He is co-founder and proprietor of the production company X Filme Creative Pool GmbH.
Wolfgang Becker lives and works in Berlin.