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Goodbye Lenin

Story line

 * The story happened between 1989 – 1991 by using political transformation of East German as the movie’s theme. Alex, a German boy, lived with his mother, Christiane , and his sister, Ariane. When Alex was young , his father was misunderstood about being a political defendant, so he abandoned his family and escaped to the West. After that , Christiane was sorrowed, she had to see a psychiatrist. Her political ideal was changed , she became a socialist.  She taught children to sing soul-stirring songs ; besides, she devoted herself to help other people. Finally, she received the best citizen prize, but in the same year, Christiane found that her son joined in the anti – government demonstration. She was shocked, and lost consciousness. She had been sleeping for 8 months. While she was in a hospital, Alex took care of her every day. He fell in love with Lara who was a nurse at there.


 * When Christiane woke up, everything had changed, but she did not know. Alex afraid if she knew that the communist failed, she could sick again. Thereby, he took her home and acted like the communist still had power. One day, Alex planned to confess his mother the truth. At the same time, Christiane confessed her secret too, that is His father did not want to abandon the family, he asked her to go with him , but she was not brave enough. He tried to send letters to Christiane and the kids more than 3 years, but she did not contact him; moreover, she hided his letters from the children.