Good Bye, Lenin!
Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Studio
WDR
Language
de
Status
Released
How Good Bye, Lenin! performed
Budget
$4.8M
Worldwide Gross
$79.4M
Gross Profit
$74.6M
Return
16.5× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$11M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Alex
Daniel Brühl
Alex
Mother
Katrin Sass
Mother
Lara
Chulpan Khamatova
Lara
Ariane
Maria Simon
Ariane
Denis
Florian Lukas
Denis
Rainer
Alexander Beyer
Rainer
Alex's Father
Burghart Klaußner
Alex's Father
Klapprath
Michael Gwisdek
Klapprath
Ms. Schäfer
Christine Schorn
Ms. Schäfer
Mr. Ganske
Jürgen Holtz
Mr. Ganske
Mr. Mehlert
Jochen Stern
Mr. Mehlert
"Sigmund Jähn"
Stefan Walz
"Sigmund Jähn"
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