What is the point of Goodbye Lenin?
Wolfgang Becker’s Goodbye Lenin is a Rip Van Winkle-style satire about one man’s attempt to make history and time stand still, so he can protect his ill mother from the times political upheaval.
What happens at the end of Goodbye Lenin?
Christiane dies from her heart attack but she was able to become reconciled with her husband and find peace. And Ariane cannot (yet) forgive her father but she has now her own family. ‘Good Bye, Lenin’!
What are the main themes of Goodbye Lenin?
Fundamental themes in the movie are the difference between ideal and reality of socialism, as well as the positive and negative aspects of the transition to free market capitalism. Such themes are carried out through a juxtaposition of an ideal society and its reality in the form of a constructed reality of socialism.
Who is the main character in Goodbye Lenin?
Christiane KernerKatrin SassAlexander ‘Alex’ KernerDaniel BrühlAriane KernerMaria SimonDenisFlorian LukasRobert KernerBurghart KlaussnerKlapprathMichael Gwisdek
Good Bye Lenin!/Characters
The film is set in East Berlin, in the period from October 1989 to a few days after German reunification in October 1990. Alex Kerner lives with his mother Christiane, his sister Ariane, and her infant daughter Paula. Alex’s father purportedly abandoned the family for a mistress in the West in 1978.
What significant event happened in November 1989?
It was on 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. East German leaders had tried to calm mounting protests by loosening the borders, making travel easier for East Germans.
Why is November 9th important?
Declared by then US President George W. Bush, World Freedom Day was created to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989.
What happened on November 9th 1918?
11 is overshadowed by a date two days earlier: Nov. 9, 1918, when a widespread anti-government revolution reached Berlin, forcing Kaiser Wilhelm II to abdicate his throne and go into exile.