Goodbye Lenin! (2003)
Germany
Feature Film
Original Title: Good Bye Lenin!
Director: Wolfgang Becker
Writers: Bernd Lichtenberg, Wolfgang Becker
Cinematographer: Martin Kukula
Composer: Yann Tiersen
Cast: Daniel Brühl, Kathrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Simon, Florian Lukas, Alexander Beyer, Burghart Klaußner
With beautiful (if familiar) music from Tiersen, and very touching performances from Brühl and Sass, Becker’s bitter-sweet tale – following a son’s attempts to keep the fall of communism from his fragile mother, who has just woken from an eight month coma, in order to shield her from the shock – transcends its sit-com-like farce plot, proving to be gently funny, quietly thoughtful, and really quite moving. Iain.Stott
