Abstract

In a 2003 movie, Good Bye Lenin, the protagonist's mother, living in East Berlin in 1989, enters a coma just before the fall of the Berlin wall and the reunification of Germany. When she wakes up, her son makes all possible efforts to conceal the changes, as the shock would jeopardize the mother's fragile health. To this end, he builds up an old East Germany world around her—up to the restoration of a lost East Germany pickles brand using jars recovered from garbage.

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