The GDR has disappeared, but Alex wants it to survive in the family apartment. Good Bye Lenin!, airing on France 4 on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, at 9 p.m., is built around a lie concocted to protect a mother with a weak heart. Wolfgang Becker directs this German comedy-drama, released in France on September 10, 2003.
Christiane, devoted to the East German regime, falls into a coma before the fall of the Berlin Wall. When she wakes up several months later, Alex fears that discovering the new country will come as a shock to her. So he tries to recreate around her the objects, routines and television images of her former life.
Daniel Brühl plays Alex, with Katrin Sass as Christiane. Chulpan Khamatova also appears in this family story, set against the transformations of Germany. The score is by Yann Tiersen: the film thus intertwines the story of reunification with the everyday invention of a miniature world to preserve.
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