Name: Good Bye Lenin
Directed by Wolfgang Becker
Produced by Stefan Arndt
Written by Wolfgang Becker,
Bernd Lichtenberg
Starring Daniel Brühl,
Katrin Sa?,
Chulpan Khamatova,
Maria Simon,
Alexander Beyer
Music by Yann Tiersen,
Claire Pichet
Editing by Peter R. Adam
Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics (US)
Release date(s) 9 February 2003
Running time 121 min
Country Germany
Language German
Budget € 4,800,000 (est.)

Good-Bye-Lenin-1.jpg_ German tragicomedy film, released internationally in 2003.
Good Bye, Lenin! is a German tragicomedy film, released internationally in 2003. It can be seen as part of the ostalgie movement. Directed by Wolfgang Becker, the cast includes Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sa?, Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Simon and Florian Lukas. Most of the scenes were shot at the Karl-Marx-Allee in Berlin and around Plattenbauten near Alexanderplatz.

Christiane relapses shortly afterwards and is taken back to the hospital. After meeting his father for the first time in years, he convinces him to meet Christiane again. Under pressure to reveal the truth about the fall of the East, Alex creates a final fake news segment. He convinces a taxi driver whom he believes to be Sigmund J?hn to act in the false news report as the new leader of East Germany, and gives a speech promising to make a better future including opening the borders to the West. Right before the family is to sit down and watch it in the meantime, Alex's nurse girlfriend quietly tells Christiane the truth about the world and German reunification. Then the rest of the family come in and they watch the fake news. Christiane understands then how much her son has gone through to make her another world and how much he loves her. However, in some ways Alex has created this TV report for himself. The film shows how Alex and Ariane felt that in some ways the reunification was too fast, losing some of the good aspects of East Germany too. Alex states that in the false TV show East Germany is having the end it deserved, rather than the end it got. Christiane dies three days after German reunification, and her ashes are scattered in the wind, despite this being illegal in both East and West Germany.