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MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wolfgang Becker
Genre: Political Satire, Coming-of-Age, Domestic Comedy, Comedy Drama
Release Date: February 27, 2004 (USA
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Summary:
A dedicated young German boy pulls off an elaborate scheme to keep his mother in good health in this comedy drama from director Wolfgang Becker. Suffering a heart attack and falling into a coma after seeing her son arrested during a protest, Alex's (Daniel Brühl) socialist mother, Christiane (Katrin Sass), remains comatose through the fall of the B... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Daniel Brühl - (Alex)
Katrin Sass - (Christiane Kerner)
Chulpan Khamatova - (Lara)
Maria Simon - (Ariane)
Florian Lukas - (Denis)
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Review:
On the face of it, Good Bye Lenin!'s premise -- a young adult son just about managing to keep the collapse of the East German regime (and the Berlin Wall) secret from his ailing mother -- is preposterous. In lesser hands, it would be prone to cheap, ... Continue >>

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