Film screening “Goodbye Lenin!” (2003)

East Germany, 1989: While a young man goes to the Oct. 3 40th anniversary ceremonies to protest, his mother suffers a heart attack and falls into coma as she watches the police arrest him. The mother awakens months later, when East Germany no longer exists. To avoid unduly exciting her, her son tries to set up the GDR in her apartment. Ostalgie with a twist.
Directed by Wolfgang Becker, 121 mins.

hm 10/27/09