Good Bye Lenin

Directed by Wolfgang Becker, 2004  (121 minutes) 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. (German with English subtitles). Introduction by Karina von Tippelskirch, Assistant Professor of German?German Program Coordinator Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics Syracuse University. Followed by a Q & A session with Karina von Tippelskirch