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Certificate 15

Cast Daniel Bruhl Katrin Sass Chulpan Khamatova Maria Simon

Directors Wolfgang Becker

Screenwriters Bernd Lichtenberg

Running Time 121 minutes

Good Bye Lenin!
Wolfgang Becker's festival circuit pleaser is solid, thoughtful dramedy

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Plot
Staunch communist Christiane falls into a coma shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. When she wakes eight months later, her health is so fragile that her son Alex must convince her that nothing has changed to save her shuffling off this mortal coil.

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