# Goodbye Lenin! (possible spoilers)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 3, 2005, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-lenin-possible-spoilers/282848 "2005-01-03T16:54:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![brix11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@brix11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brix11)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2005, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-lenin-possible-spoilers/282848/1 "2005-01-03T16:54:49Z")

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My wife rolled her eyes when she saw that I rented a movie with subtitles. After sitting through her snarky comments about _Garden State_, I was prepared for more with _Goodbye Lenin!_. Of course, she didn’t say a word because this movie was awesome…easily the best of 2004 that I had seen (although, to be honest, I only saw a handful of movies in theatres last year).

For some reason, all the actors looked quite familiar, although I didn’t recognize their names and the last German film I saw was _Run, Lola, Run_.

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-lenin-possible-spoilers/282848/2 "2005-01-03T17:22:36Z")

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This was without a doubt the most well-known movie any of the principals have been in, and the only cast member it had in common with _Lola_ was a bit player. Fun movie. If you liked this, then you’d probably like a few other recent German films, [What to Do in Case of Fire?](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0207198/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9d2hhdCB0byBkbyBpbiBjYXNlIG9mIGZpcmV8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=1) and [In July](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0177858/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9aW4ganVseXxodG1sPTF8bm09b24_;fc=1;ft=21;fm=1) (though I don’t know how available they are on video; I saw all 3 in the theaters).

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-lenin-possible-spoilers/282848/3 "2005-01-03T19:15:42Z")

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A sweet, charming film. I liked it a lot.