Good Bye Lenin! Page #2

What's your name?

La...

Stop it!

Watch out!

That's my mum lying there!

- Stand still! - My mum's lying there!

Let me go, you a**hole!

That's my mu......

Alexander Kerner?

- Yes?

Your mother.

What about mother?

What is it?

Mum had a heart attack.

Unfortunately, the resuscitation attempts were carried out

very late. Your mother's in a coma.

When can we talk to her?

- Alex, Mum's in a coma!

Mr. Kerner, we don't know yet,

whether or not your mother will ever wake up again.

Can you hear me, Mum?

You've got to wake up!

But mother was fast asleep.

In her deep, neverending sleep...

she circled like a satellite

around the events happening...

on our little planet

in our even smaller Republic.

The 9th Convention agreed to Honecker's request,

to relieve him of his duties...

because of health problems

and thanked him for his political life's work.

Congratulations!

Her sleep obscured the retirement of

the esteemed comrade Erich Honecker,

Her sleep obscured the retirement of

the esteemed comrade Erich Honecker,

General Secretary of the CC of the SUG

and Chairman of the GDR's council of state.

(Reporter) Berlin.

This evening the Wall fell.

(German National Anthem) Unity and Justice

and Liberty...

(German National Anthem) Unity and Justice

and Liberty...

Mother slept through a classical concert

at the City Hall of Schneberg.

And the start of a gigantic and

unique waste collection.

And the start of a gigantic and

unique waste collection.

Open the gateway!

Stasi begone! Stasi begone!

Mother kept on sleeping. Deeply and firmly.

She missed my

first trip into the West,

and how some comrades conscientiously

protected us workers and peasants.

and how some comrades conscientiously

protected us workers and peasants.

Of course she also missed my

first cultural discoveries

in a new country.

Excuse me, excuse me.

Excuse me, excuse me.

Mothers deep sleep didn't allow her

to participate in the first free polling.

Helmut! Helmut! Helmut!

She missed how Ariane gave up her study

of economic theory...

Enjoy your meal and thank you for choosing Burger King.

... and made her first practical experience

with the circulation of money.

The sleep saved her the moving-in of Ariane's new boyfriend.

Rainer, class enemy and barbecue man.

The furniture from the bedroom

is going to the basement.

The furniture from the bedroom

is going to the basement.

She missed the increasing Westernization of

our 79-square-metre apartment...

The old rubbish with the red dot

is going to the bulk waste, okay?

The old rubbish with the red dot

is going to the bulk waste, okay?

... and Rainer's enthusiasm for the

oriental customs and way of life.

The big hormanal ecstasy

that I experienced watching

a few beautiful legs,

didn't reach into her night.

Sh*t!

What're you doing there?

- I... the infusion...

And not even the first day of Nurse Lara

exchange angel from the sovjet union,

penetrated her black dreams.

There you are again.

- Hello.

I was worried about you.

- They've put me in clink.

Mother overslept the triumph of

the capitalism. - Relief!

And the coordination of

my hospital visits.

Do you know what I noticed?

When she's in a good mood,

she's carrying her hair loosely.

When she's in a bad mood, she puts them up.

And during the doctor's round,

she chews on her fingernails.

Don't you think

she's got a beautiful smile?

Her sleep ignored,

how heroes of work became unemployed.

Her sleep ignored,

how heroes of work became unemployed.

The PGH TV workshop "Adolf Hennecke"

was winded up.

I was the last one

and I switched off the light.

Then there was the reprise. As a member of the

quick-witted East-West-Team, I applied the reunification very early.

Satellite dishes blossomed

in our landscape.

Denis Domaschke?

Domaschke. Denis Domaschke.

Alexander Kerner?

- Here.

Well, come on. Don't be shy.

Well, come on. Don't be shy.

Hi.

And get along, guys.

Hi.

- Hello.

Knut Vogel?

Hello, Mum. Doctor Wagner said

we should talk to you.

And if I can't be there in person,

I thought it might work like this too.

It's 5 o' clock now.

Most of the doctors are gone

and you've finally got some peace.

Nurse Lara, who's washed you,

should be gone too. If you could see her

you'd surely wake up.

Ariane sends you her regards,

she thinks the idea with the tape is nonsense. Well, you know her.

She's just in the room taking care of Paula who's

getting her teeths and is screaming all the time.

Mother overslept my

unstoppable progress with Lara.

Our first romantic rendez-vous followed

It's loud here!

Our Russian teacher came from Minsk

and weighed a ton.

And that's all you know

about Russian women?

The wind of change blew

into the ruins of our Republic.

Summer came and Berlin was

the most beautiful place on Earth.

We felt like

being in the center of the world.

Where finally something moved.

And we moved with it.

It's too bad she doesn't

realize any of this.

Well, maybe it's better that way.

Everything she believed in

has dissolved into air in a few months.

Just like that.

And your dad?

- He was a Doctor.

He escaped into the West.

We haven't heard anything from him again.

The future was in our hands,

uncertain and promising.

Good afternoon. We're X TV and we just wanted to...

Hello, do you need a satellite dish?

No money?

Good afternoon!

Do you like football? Then we've got something for you.

Good afternoon. We're X TV and...

We're X TV!

Are you interested in a satellite dish?

This is Vietnam 1, there's Vietnam 2

and back there's the Viatnamese sport channel.

Alright!

To the World Cup!

- To the future! - To us!

Comrade!

At the moment this is just running

on the side.

And later...

I'll do real feature films.

Same label of course.

Watch this, I'll just show you something.

Watch this, I'll just show you something.

That's what I'm working on at the moment. Watch this!

Don't look yet.

Don't look yet, wait...

And... now!

Recognized it?

Now!

That's the famous cut from 2001,

the one with the bone.

The cake represents the spaceship.

Got it now? Yes?

- Ingenious.

Ingenious.

Alright, everybody laugh.

Alright, everybody laugh.

At the beginning of June 1990, the borders

of our GDR were worthless.

Mother kept on sleeping. But I

remembered the old words of the comrades:

"We solve problems by making headway"

and I acted.

Mum?

Mum!

Can you hear me?

Your mother's awakening is a wonder.

But she might not be the same person she used to be.

What do you mean?

There have been some cases in which

the patients didn't recognize their own children: amnesia.

Loss of memory.

Sorry.

Mental confusion. Blending of

long and short-term memory...

Taste and smell irritations,

delayed perception. We don't know,

how badly the brain was damaged.

There are a lot of uncertain possibilities.

I'm sorry to have to say this,

but mother is still in great danger.

I'm afraid I can't give you much hope

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