There is an enormous gap between what the German film Good Bye, Lenin! seems it will be and what it actually is. That gap is filled with a poignant and often comic insight into what happens to a society in flux.

Frankly, at first glance, the plot sounds a bit tricked out, not even plausible (and how wrong that notion turns out to be). With director Wolfgang Becker working from a script by Bernd Lichtenberg, Good Bye, Lenin! is the saga of an eccentric family living in East Germany in the 1980s.
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