Good Bye Lenin! Page #4

for Spreewood gherkins.

It's alright. These are fine too.

Listen, you really don't have to take

care of me all the time.

It's awkward for me.

- Mum.

No, really. Maybe...

... you could put the TV next to the bed.

Then I'll manage by my own.

Watching TV still is too tiring for you.

- But why? Why shouldn't I...

be able to watch TV?

- We'll ask the Doctor.

Mum, we have to talk to you about something.

It's like this...

We wanted to ask you if...

We need your authorization to access your bank account.

- What is it?

Do you need money?

- No. No.

It's just that you can't go walk

the bank by yourself anymore.

And it would simply be better if...

you sign this.

Yes, and...

maybe now would be best.

But there's no hurry is there?

You're keeping something from me?

Has something happened? Are you in debt?

Please trust us, it's important!

Before I let you have all my money,

I have got a right to know what it's for don't I?

All right.

It was supposed to be

a surprise but...

We received a notification.

From Zwickau.

We can fetch our "Trabant" (GDR car).

From Zwickau.

We can fetch our "Trabant" (GDR car).

After only 3 years?

And for that we need the money

that you've saved.

You don't think...

I got my money at the bank?

I've hidden it.

And where?

- Where?

I forgot.

I've totally forgotten, it's all gone.

- Mum, just think.

Father is coming home late today,

don't you think?

Mum...

That's alright.

Soon you'll be better again.

We'll celebrate your birthday.

As every year.

With the house community.

We have always celebrated it.

This is the First German Television

with the news.

Comrade Ganske watches West-TV?

Comrade Ganske fell in love.

During a vacation in Hungary.

With a pensioner from... Munich.

Since then his love for the party has suffered.

Oh.

- Well...

Are you finished?

I'm sorry I'm late again.

- There it is. Even with a balcony.

Since some citizens didn't even return from their

vacation in Hungary,

Since some citizens didn't even return from their

vacation in Hungary,

the apartment market in the Capital eased considerably.

There were deserted apartments everywhere,

which we only had to enter.

The guy moved to the West last year.

A colleague gave me the hint.

The guy moved to the West last year.

A colleague gave me the hint.

Get a load of that! - Get a load of that

- It's working! - Tempo-beans!

Globus green peas!

That can't be true.

Mocca Fix Gold!

I've been looking for that all the time!

Can I have that?

I have to go.

Sleep on...

Morning, Mum.

Morning, Alex.

Are you in a hurry?

- I have to go to work.

Alex, please remember the TV.

- Let's talk about that later.

Alex, please remember the TV.

- Let's talk about that later.

Oh and about my birthday.

Invite Klapprath and perhaps a few pupils.

As if the f***ing gherkins weren't enough trouble already.

Now she wants to watch TV.

What should I do?

- Yeah, Houston. We got a problem.

Yeah, and now? - I thought you might have an idea.

No, I meant the picture.

Oh.

Now?

- Nope.

It didn't work very long.

- Semi-finale! I'll just go over to the Pollnicks.

Then go already.

Excuse me.

Are those gherkins from the Spreewood?

Nope, from the Netherlands.

Just show her something old.

- What do you mean?

Old East-TV stuff on video tape.

News from last year? She'll notice for sure.

Ah, I don't think so. It was always the same rubbish.

- Where should I get the videos from?

I haven't even got a recorder.

- Bad enough.

What's the score?

What's the score?

Beckenbauer, Rudi Vller...

You don't want to see it...

Germany made it into the finale!

While the world time clock at the Alexander Square

rushed towards mother's birthday,

a tiny round ball united the social development...

of the split nation and let things, that belonged

together, grow together.

I slaved away like a Hero of Labour to resurrect

the GDR in every detail

in mother's room until this day.

Have the cross-word puzzles already been solved?

- Untouched like a virgin.

Great. I'll take them all.

Oh and these ones too.

They laid my daughter off too.

All of a sudden it was: "Thank you, and goodbye."

And for that we worked for 40 years, oh leave me alone......

They'll even drop the TV ballet.

Don't you do anything apart from watching TV?

Don't you do anything apart from watching TV?

To get back to my mother. The problem is that

she doesn't know about the Fall of the Wall

- Enviable.

And it's her birthday next week.

She would really be happy about a visit.

Have you really got it now?

I don't want to hear one false word.

And our 20 Marks?

- The work comes first.

The first guests were invited.

Others still had to be persuaded.

A lot of people of the Polytechnical Secondary School

"Werner Seelenbinder"...

had withdrawn to their private lives.

Including Doctor Klapprath.

Once headmaster and outstanding

teacher of the People.

Once headmaster and outstanding

teacher of the People.

We were all valuable people.

Isn't that right, Alex?

I admired your mother.

She was an outstanding educator.

I admired your mother.

She was an outstanding educator.

And an excellent human being.

That's why she was neutralized.

Some comrades in the collective

thought her to be too...

idealistic.

Ever since your father...

Her idealism was well-respected, but...

in the daily school routine, it...

can become problematic sometimes.

And then you simply gave her the boot.

You still owe her something.

- Yes.

You're a Dispatcher. Can you remember that?

- Dispatcher? In the East?

Yes, of course in the East. You organize the

purchasing of a Mitropa-Restaurant.

Write this down:

School Education EOS Juri Gagarin.

Write this down:

School Education EOS Juri Gagarin.

And you were Group Council Chairman with

the Pioneers. - Group Council... what?

Group Council Chairman.

- That's enough.

I won't use those plastic diapers anymore.

That's going too far.

Got it?

Yes, Group Council Chairman.

Here you are, 30 broadcasts of "Current Camera",

"A Day in the West". It's all copied.

Sponsored by the country's picture library

and a very charming Denis.

I hope that'll work.

What are you doing crawling on the ground?

- That's the cable for the antenna so you can watch TV?

We've got the World Cup. Truly a gift.

There is no better time to

supply satellite dishes to the East.

Okay? Got it? We come to phase 3...

What was that?

- No idea. Interferences, happens from time to time.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen and welcome

to the "Current Camera".

Hard provocation against the border.

Protests in the Chancellor's office in the FRG (West Germany).

Chip-Power GDR.

The foreign press acknowledges achievements...

Things are running outside

and I feel so useless in here.

Can't you put a note on the house community's

pin board?

Whoever's got any problems can come to me.

I can write inputs from bed.

I don't know.

You shouldn't exert yourself.

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