Goodbye, Lenin!

This movie could have been fantastic if it weren't sooo long. It takes place in late 1989, early 1990 during the reunification of Germany. A boy's mother, an active socialist party member, enters a coma right before the wall comes down. She wakes up and the Doctor tells him to keep her life as stress free as possible. Realizing her devotion to socialism - he attempts to mislead her into the believing that not much has changed since she went into a comatose state. The acting was average, I didn't really like the lead character too much. I would say see other movies you really want to see first and save this for a day when you want to reminisce over East Germany.

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