Good Bye Lenin!

Alex puts the contents of a pack of Jacobs coffee into GDR packaging, but the logo on the Western coffee package is the one that was launched in the late '90s.

A bottle of red Blanchet brand wine is shown, but when the wall came down, there was only Blanchet white wine.

A GT6N-type streetcar, which was not in service before 1995, can be seen in the summer of 1990.

In one sequence in the background you can see the Berolina-Bulidung at the Alexanderplatz.

On the roof you can see the sign of the bank company "Bankgesellschaft Berlin".

In the time between the fall of Berlin-wall (Nov.

1989) and Germany's reunion (October 1990) there was no Bankgesellschaft Berlin situated in East-Berlin.

The Company bought the Berolina Building in 1993.

When Alex first enters the hospital to pay a visit to his mother, there are modern green emergency exit signs.

Denis wears a "digital rain"-style T-shirt in 1989 because he has developed the idea himself and has come up with an idea for a film exactly like _The Matrix (1999)_ (qv), which he describes in a deleted scene (the letters are not identical to the Matrix scheme.

) The joke is that the idea originated in East Germany; compare the claim in one of Denis's fake news shows that the Coca-Cola formula was invented there.

It also ties in to the film's main theme of keeping people in a simulated reality.

When Alex goes to the supermarket to buy his mom's favorite pickles, he asks an employee where to find them.

The employee is tagging cases of Pepsi.

The Pepsi logo on the cans is the modern day logo, not the one in the early-'90s.

After Ariane finds the letters from her father hidden in the kitchen, she holds one on which Christiane's name is misspelled as Christine.

As Alex is being driven away from his mother in the truck at night, you can see faint blue sky in the background.

In the scene where Alex convinces Dr.

Klapprath to come to his mother's birthday, the amount of coffee in the pot on the table changes between shots.

When Dennis and Alex arrive at their firm and their colleagues are watching a football match in 1990, the worker who is opening a bottle of champagne at the end is wearing a t-shirt from the 1994 soccer championship.

The story of "Goodbye Lenin" is more than a movie that outlines a mother-son relationship, or a coming of age plot it represents an era in East Germany where change in life was mandatory. There are many opinions about the East and West merger, but it is easy to overlook the emotions of the people living in East Germany.

Well, I must say I had no idea that life behind the wall during East Germany's existence was so restrictive. No Western companies allowed, (Coca Cola, etc) rubbish TV, mandatory conformation and if you tried to escape this hellhole, you were shot on sight.

I couldn't say enough good things about this movie. I want to recommend it to anyone with eyes and ears.

At the beginning of the new century the collapse of the German Democratic Republic (DDR) was about 10 years ago. Opening of the Stasi archives had demonstrated how cruel the Communist state had been.

This German film is both light- hearted and serious. It was filmed in 2001 and is set in 1989 to 1990 during East Germany's collapse of Communism especially the fall of the infamous Berlin Wall and the end of Checkpoint Charlie.

We know, no one's love can match a mother's love for her children. But this film is all about a son's love for his mother.

"Good Bye, Lenin!" is a 2003 comedy starring Daniel Bruhl, Katrin Sass, and Maria Simon, directed by Wolfgang Becker, who co-wrote the script.

A good story about German reunification very dramatic and moving. TOTALLY RECOMMENDED!

The concept of this movie, which is that a young man has to do all in his power to stop his mother who is recovering from a heart attack learning of what's happened to Germany while she was in a coma, is absolutely delicious, but it's a premise that could easily go wrong. However, I'm pleased to report that it certainly didn't go wrong, and through interesting characterisation, a great script and some thought-provoking ideas Good Bye, Lenin!