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7:30 PM

Good Bye, Lenin!

Film

  • Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hongkong

  • Price $ 80/64* *Tickets for full-time students, senior citizens, aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and the minder and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients.| Group Booking Discount: 20% off for purchase of 4 or more above standard tickets. | 20% discount to Goethe-Institut Hongkong’s students with a valid proof
  • Part of series: Winds of Change

A man stands in front of a wall with posters from GDR, holding a big portrait of a man under his arm. © X Filme Creative Pool GmbH

Director: Wolfgang Becker
2003 | 121 mins | German with English subtitles | Blu-ray | Colour


Blue Angel Award for the Best European Film, Berlin International Film Festival 2003
European Film, Actor and Screenwriter, Audience Awards for Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress, European Film Awards 2003
Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear Award, Berlin International Film Festival 2003

The risk of foregoing tenderness and artifice

Residing in East Berlin in 1989, Christiane firmly believes that socialism could change the world for the better, but his son Alex gets arrested in an anti-government rally that demands for the fall of the Berlin Wall. Having learnt of the news, Christiane gets a heart attack and falls into a coma. After Alex has returned home while his mother is unconscious, the Wall falls and capitalism arrives. Because the doctor warns of the possible lethal consequence of stimulating Christiane, Alex and his cohorts mobilise their imagination to reconstruct a world around Christiane to make her believe that the GDR still exists.

This critically and popularly acclaimed tragicomedy moved local and international audiences to tears upon its release. It playfully and poignantly expresses that disorienting period of change and nostalgia, making it one of the most memorable films of German cinema.