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for a viewer from Eastern Europe, it is a special film. not for the story itself or for performances but for the great themes who are opportunities for not ignore the past. because the nostalgia for the image of a better past, the every day realities under Communism, the need to escape from the pressure of dictatorship in its different aspects and, after 1990, to adapt yourself to the democratic values are basic things who impose !Good Bye Lenin !" as a must see. the film works with simple fragments of facts. and it does it in admirable manner. so, an useful film. especially for the memory of a viewer from East.

So many reviewers here have already given this movie its due. It IS funny, excellent, touching - and some more. I saw it twice - the second time I took my 13-year old daughter along. It was an excellent way of giving her a feel of what the division of Europe really felt like and what happened after the fall of the wall. She loved the movie, laughed, cried and sighed and afterwards we did actually talk quite a bit about this period of history: So - if you would like to stuff a little bit of history into your kids head, without the kid realizing that he or she is actually having a history lesson, this movie is highly recommended.