Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
Directed by Wolfgang Becker
In East Berlin as the Wall falls, a young man keeps his fragile mother from learning that her country has vanished, recreating the GDR inside their flat and taking her out to the family dacha.
- Travel shown
- On foot, bike, skis or swimming
- Not shown on screen
- Fictional place
- 1Protest march, East Berlin≈ 00:08:00Berlin, GermanyStated on screen
Alex is arrested at an anti-government protest in October 1989, and his mother collapses when she sees it.
- 2Hospital, East Berlin≈ 00:13:00Berlin, GermanyInferred
Christiane lies in a coma for eight months while the Wall falls; Alex meets Lara again as her nurse.
- 3The Kerners' flat, East Berlin≈ 00:30:00Berlin, GermanyStated on screen
Alex refurnishes the flat in GDR style, relabels Western food and fakes news broadcasts for his bedridden mother.
- 4Street outside the flat≈ 01:05:00Berlin, GermanyStated on screen
Christiane wanders outside and sees Western cars and a Lenin statue carried off by helicopter.
- 5The Kerners' dacha outside Berlin (unnamed)≈ 01:15:00InferredFictional
- 6Robert's house, West Berlin≈ 01:30:00Berlin, GermanyStated on screen
- 7Rocket launch, Berlin≈ 01:52:00Berlin, GermanyInferred
The journey in numbers
- Distance travelled
- 49 km
- Places
- 2
- Countries
- 1
- Stops
- 7
- Not shown: 25 km
- Car: 25 km
- On foot: 0.0 km
Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.
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