7:00 PM
- 9:00 PM
Tuesday Nov 3, 2009
Olin-Rice Science Center 150
Film #3 of the series:
Good-Bye Lenin (2003)
A saintly East German Communist believer, falls into a coma just before the Berlin Wall comes down, in 1989. When she awakens, her son, Alex, creates a kind of ersatz reality for her - a living museum of Communism - in which nothing has changed. This social satire was a huge hit in Germany. Beneath the slapstick surface lies a somber point that Communism in Germany was always an ersatz reality - that for forty years Party leaders were creating a large-scale version of the fiction.
Sponsored By: German Studies, Humanities and Media and Cultural Studies, International Studies
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