Good Bye, Lenin!

Name: Good Bye, Lenin!
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2003-02-13
Duration: 2 h 1 min
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Simon, Florian Lukas

Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)

Timing: 2:1 (121 min)

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Release date

2003-02-13

Country

Germany

Production

X Filme Creative Pool, WDR, ARTE, ARTE

Genre

Comedy, Drama

Budget

$4 800 000

Box office

$79 316 957

Website

Director

Wolfgang Becker

Actors

Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Simon, Florian Lukas, Alexander Beyer, Burghart Klaußner, Michael Gwisdek, Christine Schorn, Jürgen Holtz
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Scenario

Producer

Stefan Arndt, Andreas Schreitmüller, Katja De Bock, Manuela Stehr

Camera operator

Martin Kukula

Composer

Yann Tiersen

Artist

Lothar Holler

Audition

Simone Bär

Editing

Peter R. Adam
Whole Team (45)

Short description

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.

What's left behind the scenes

During filming at the hospital, a thermometer broke. All the mercury spilled out. Blood tests were taken from everyone present, which showed elevated mercury levels. However, it turned out that this was due to sushi eaten by the crew the day before the accident.
The boy who played Alex as a child was also fond of building model rockets, so filming the rocket launch scene wasn't particularly difficult.
Most of the film's scenes were shot in Berlin on Karl-Marx-Allee and around prefabricated buildings near Alexanderplatz.
Although products that existed in the GDR are depicted with historical accuracy in the film, the packaging of products from West Germany does not match what they actually looked like at the time, for example, Heinz ketchup, Pepsi Light, and Coca-Cola Light.
The film features the West Berlin office of Coca-Cola, which previously 'starred' in Billy Wilder's comedy, 'One, Two, Three' (1961).
At one point in the film, the song 'I Believe' by Zhanna Aguzarova is heard on the radio.
Denis Domashke (Florian Lukas) wears a t-shirt with the green code from 'The Matrix' (1999), even though the film's action takes place in the early 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The film features the Coca-Cola office in West Berlin, which previously 'appeared' in Billy Wilder's comedy One, Two, Three (1961).
At one point in the film, the song "I Believe" by Zhanna Aguzarova plays on the radio.
Denis Domashke (Florian Lucas) wears a t-shirt with the green code from the movie "The Matrix" (1999), even though the film is set in the early 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall.