Released Date:
2004-05-14
Languages:
German, English, Russian
Countries:
Germany
Runtime:
121 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (107240 Reviews)
Director:
Wolfgang BeckerBernd Lichtenberg
Wolfgang Becker (author)
Achim von Borries (collaborator on screenplay)
Hendrik Handloegten (collaborator on screenplay)
Christoph Silber (collaborator on screenplay)
East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot.
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