Good Bye Lenin! Page #5

Morning, Alex. Is it time already?

You want a swig? You want a swig?

- Oh holy sh*t!

Sh*t. Sh*t, yes? Sh*t!

Goodness, goddamn sh*t!

I feel sick.

While many loudly thought of themself

being the World Cup holders of tomorrow,

While many loudly thought of themself

being the World Cup holders of tomorrow,

sounds from the past

came out of mother's bedroom.

Our home

is not only the towns...

and villages...

Our home is also

all the trees in the forest...

Our home...

is the grass on the sward,

the corn on the field...

and the birds...

in the air and the animals on the ground...

and the fishes in the river are the home...

And we love the...

That was wonderful. Thank you. Thank you, children.

You learned that from me, didn't you?

Yes.

Dear Christiane!

We are here... today... here,

because it's your birthday.

And... I would like to wish...

you all the best

in the name of the party direction.

And...

the basket.

For you.

That's kind of you. Thank you.

Klapprath.

Rosenthaler Kadarka... Mocca Fix Gold...

Globus green peas.

The colleagues and... the comrades...

of the POS "Werner Seelenbinder"... they...

would like to thank you in particular

for all the years,

Christiane, that you... were...

a... good colleague...

and... a dear comrade...

uhm...

And anyway, I wish you all the best

for your birthday and remain the same person you are...

Christiane.

Dear comrade Kerner...

All the best...

and... good health...

and that everything will be

as it used to be again.

Lara, come here.

This is Lara.

An exchange student from the Soviet Union.

Her dad is a teacher for the deaf and dumb.

Don't marry him too early.

- Mum.

Even though the thing with the flat

will work out earlier then.

My Alex can be

a real block-head sometimes.

And Rainer...

that's my Ariane's new boyfriend.

He... he is a...

Dispatcher.

- Right, I'm a Dispatcher.

I used to be with them myself...

All the best from the heart... Pioneers!

I used to be with the

Free German Pioneers...

Thank you, Rainer.

As a Group... um...

Cha...

Group Chairman... back then...

- Thank you!

Be ready, be ready!

- Thank you, Rainer!

Yes, Mum. Another year is over.

What's changed?

Not much really.

Paula got her teeth and a new dad.

And me... yes.

Unfortunately, we cannot go over to

the Caf Moskow to drink to your health,

but we're all together.

And that's the most important thing.

We didn't always make it easy for you,

but you were always there for us.

And, by any rate, I can't think of

a better family than ours.

And that's what I wanted to thank you for.

Mum, you're the best mother in the world.

Alex?

- And we all love you.

Alex?.

- What's the matter?

What's that?

That's...

- Yes, what's the meaning of that?

I don't know what the comrades are doing there again...

A fata morgana.

That's from the West.

- It's a mirage.

It will have been approved somehow.

- Please calm down, Mum!

There's an explanation for everything. Right...

Boys, please sing something, will you?

Lara! Wait a moment, I... Lara?.

"Build up, build up".

What's the matter all of a sudden?

Build up.

For a better future...

we build up our home...

I'm sorry for your mother.

What you're doing is too scary for me.

And what is this nonsense

about my father being a teacher for the deaf and dumb.

He was a simple cook, you know that.

- But she rejoiced in that.

What should I've told her?

That he's dead? In her state?

You mean to say, when you're lying already,

it doesn't make any difference anyway.

Cheers for her,

cheers for her...

Lara!

Cheers for her,

cheers for her...

three cheers for her!

Cheers, cheers, cheers!

Just a little further away.

Just a little further away.

Just a little more..

Watch out, will you? We're filming here!

- Can I see your authorization?

Didn't he inform you?

- Me? Who?

Oh, what was his name?

- Something with "M".

I'll just go and ask around.

Until then, you don't film anything!

Got the logo? - Yes.

Sharpness on me?- Yes.

We're waiting for the evening sun.

- Don't overdo it, the guy will be back soon.

Just you wait.

With the evening sun it'll look brill.

When I stared at the clouds on that day,

I realized that the truth

was just a doubtful matter,

that I could adapt to mother's

familiar surroundings.

familiar surroundings.

I only had to study the language

of "Current Camera"...

and spur on Denis' ambition

as a film director.

Today Gnther Mittag, secretary for Economy

in the CC of the SUD,

visited the Coca Cola group in West Berlin.

The reason for the comrade's visit are...

details of the completed

trade agreement between Coca Cola...

and the VEB Drink Collective Combine Leipzig.

Security officers of West Berlin hinder

the work of the GDR television.

Surely, the capitalistic press

censors find the loss the mighty

Coca Cola group has suffered against the

VEB Drink Collective Combine Leipzig...

in the patent procedure too embarrassing...

Please let the GDR television

work undisturbed!

- That's it, I'm calling the police!

A testimonial of international

scientists now finally confirmed

to the Collective Combine,

that the original Coca Cola flavour

was developed in the 50s

in laboratories of the GDR. Back to the studio.

Coca Cola is a socialist drink?

I thought, Cola existed before the war.

Don't you understand, Mum?

The West ripped us off all these years!

Until the end of August

- Now I remember!

What?

- Where I hid the money.

In the living room. In the small chest of drawers.

In the left drawer

under the wax paper.

The old rubbish with the red dot

is going to the bulk waste.

How could I forget?

Hey, here I am!

- Oh, hello!

And?

Has she swallowed it?

- Yes, of course. - Really?

Has she really swallowed it?

- I'm telling you.

They've driven us this far!

- Good evening, Mister Ganske.

They betrayed us and sold us out!

The lack of sharpness didn't irritate her?

- No.

And for that we worked 40 years...

- We could rebuild a studio.

We would have different possibilites

with a blue box.

What... what are you doing there?

And? What should we do with it?

- Exchange it, of course.

I'm sorry, but the deadline expired

I'm sorry, but the deadline expired

But it's a special case.

- We've only just found it today.

It's even okay for us,

if you exchange 1 to 4 or 1 to 5...

I'm afraid there is no prolongation.

And we wouldn't have exchanged cash anyway.

That can't be!

- It has to be possible!

I'm sure you heard me. Time's up!

- Your time is up soon, you bastard!

These are 30,000 East Marks! That was our money,

for 40 damned years!

Now you Western f*** want to tell me,

this isn't worth anything?

Please leave our premises now.

Keep your hands off! And what are you all gawking at?

It used to be your money, too!

Keep your hands off! You a**holes!

Are you going mad or what?

I felt like a Commander

of a submarine in the Northsea-Fleet,

whose battle-hardened steel skin

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