a movie i was forced to watch in my german language class. a teenage boy protagonist’s mom (a member of the east german communist party) has a heart attack (from seeing her son being beaten by the eeeeebil east german police during an anti-government demonstration) right before the berlin wall falls, she wakes up in a coma with the doctors saying not to shock her, and the boy protagonist has to pretend like east germany never fell by wearing old clothes, replacing labels on groceries and creating fake news broadcasts for his mom. his dad had ‘abandoned his family for a western woman’ but it ackshually turns out he was fleeing the east because he refused to join the communist party and planned to bring his family with him.
one of the dumbest movies i’ve ever watched (not in a good way) and emblematic of the constant un-subtle anti-communist propaganda american students are exposed to, especially when they seek understanding of other cultures. idiot high school me wanted to learn to read Marx, all i learned was how to order food and buy clothes and hate east germany.
Glad to hear that, lots of older folks loved that movie like “tehee so true, le gommunism ahh” and I always suspected it would just be propaganda. Now I know I’ll just avoid it at all cost
Been a while since I saw it but I thought it had at least a couple scenes sympathetic to communism, like not just his mom but the other people her age miss the communist days once they’re gone, an older guy talks about some of the things that were good, and not everything about west Germany is shown as positive.
Good Bye, Lenin!
a movie i was forced to watch in my german language class. a teenage boy protagonist’s mom (a member of the east german communist party) has a heart attack (from seeing her son being beaten by the eeeeebil east german police during an anti-government demonstration) right before the berlin wall falls, she wakes up in a coma with the doctors saying not to shock her, and the boy protagonist has to pretend like east germany never fell by wearing old clothes, replacing labels on groceries and creating fake news broadcasts for his mom. his dad had ‘abandoned his family for a western woman’ but it ackshually turns out he was fleeing the east because he refused to join the communist party and planned to bring his family with him.
one of the dumbest movies i’ve ever watched (not in a good way) and emblematic of the constant un-subtle anti-communist propaganda american students are exposed to, especially when they seek understanding of other cultures. idiot high school me wanted to learn to read Marx, all i learned was how to order food and buy clothes and hate east germany.
Glad to hear that, lots of older folks loved that movie like “tehee so true, le gommunism ahh” and I always suspected it would just be propaganda. Now I know I’ll just avoid it at all cost
It’s a German movie and it’s also shown a lot in schools here. It’s blatant west German anticommunist propaganda justifying the annexation of the DDR.
Been a while since I saw it but I thought it had at least a couple scenes sympathetic to communism, like not just his mom but the other people her age miss the communist days once they’re gone, an older guy talks about some of the things that were good, and not everything about west Germany is shown as positive.