Goodbye Lenin movie is a political love story set in East Germany (GDR) around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It describes a loyal communist single mother Christiane Kerner who suffers two painful events that affects her life‚ first her husband Robert run away to the West and never came back. ‚ Leaving her to take care of their two adolescent children’s‚ Ariane and Alex‚ by herself. Second event is Months before the fall of the Berlin wall 1989. There was a revolution against the
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“It always takes about 10 years to have some distance. And distance allows you to laugh about yourself and things you wouldn’t dare laugh about when you’re right in the middle of it‚” director of Goodbye‚ Lenin!‚ Wolfgang Becker‚ stated in an interview discussing the movie. Goodbye‚ Lenin! focuses on the drastic shift in the lives of East Germans following the fall of the Berlin Wall. With the rise of communist nation‚ Russia‚ after World War II‚ came the conflict between communist and capitalist
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Goodbye‚ Lenin is a heart-warming film about a son’s attempt to make time stand still in order to keep his sick mother from knowing the truth about the political changes. His mother‚ Christiana‚ is a strong political activist in the Socialist party in East Germany. She becomes ill after she sees her son‚ Alex‚ protesting in the streets‚ she falls into a coma after suffering a heart attack. During the eight months she is in a coma‚ the Berlin Wall comes down and capitalism floods in from the west
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Throughout the various films we watched‚ from Der Untertan to Goodbye Lenin‚ the films ranged in time period as well‚ from pre-WWI to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Out of all of the presented eras in German history‚ I believe that the time frame of Goodbye Lenin would be the best choice to live for me. This period is one of great prosperity‚ monumental change‚ spreading ideas‚ growing freedom‚ and unity among the people. We saw many differences throughout the films as they portrayed various struggling
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East Germany in Wolfgang Becker film «Goodbye Lenin!»: Does the movie paint a positive or negative picture of life in communist East Germany? East Germany‚ its demise relayed through the mass media of recent history‚ has in popular consciousness been posited as negative‚ a corrupt bulwark of the last dying days of Communism in Eastern Europe‚ barren and silent. The other Germany to its West‚ it’s citizens free‚ was striding confidently ahead into the millennium. Recent cinema has sought to examine
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Vladimir Lenin The Russian Revolution‚ we know how it began‚ why it began‚ and the outcome of it. We know that without it Russia would have not become to powerhouse that it was during World War II and beyond (and without it might have been completely taken over by the Nazis). However‚ unlike the French Revolution which had no clear leader or originator of the revolution at the very beginning of Russia’s toppling of the monarchy and rise of Communism was one man: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Vladimir
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Goodbye Bafana Summary: The film is about a man named James Gregory‚ who grew up on a farm in South Africa with dark coloured people. In this way‚ James learned their language Xhosa‚ culture and conditions. Later on when James became an adult‚ he was employed by the government. The government finds out that James can speak the native language and therefore he gets a job‚ where he had to censor all kinds of letters that goes in and out of the prison and the prisoners’ conversations‚ he could
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Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik (meaning Majority) faction of the Russian Social and Democratic Labour Party and took power in the October Revolution of 1917. He was born in the city of Simbirsk in 1870 and studied Law at Kazan ’ university‚ where he was introduced to Marxist literature. His brother Alexandr was involved in a plot to assassinate Tsar Alexandr III and executed. He spent some time in internal exile in Siberia before being exiled from Russia. It was in London that he formed
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“SAYING GOODBYE” I’ve learned that goodbyes will always hurt‚ pictures never replace having been there‚ memories‚ good or bad‚ will bring tears and words can never replace feelings. There were many things I wanted to write before writing on the word goodbye‚ but life takes a man to where fate has decided and it never goes in the neat little order we desire. I never thought that saying goodbye would be so hard. I am 14 but life has taught me one thing that u might forget the place where you were
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struggle. From the crowd leaders emerge‚ the intelligent‚ the most powerful‚ and the ones who can get the job done. In two of history’s more renowned revolutions‚ the French and Russian‚ two great thinkers pushed the revolution onward‚ Robespierre and Lenin‚ respectively. Maximilien Robespierre was born on May 6‚ 1758‚ the son of a lawyer in Arras. His life was successful early on‚ being awarded a scholarship to the prestigious Louis-le-Grand College in Paris. Here he was prominent in his studies of
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