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Good Bye, Lenin!
2003
· Movie
· 121 min
A
MEANRANK
80/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #601
- IMDb #709
- Rotten Tomatoes #340
- Metacritic #1295
- Letterboxd #804
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #911
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #237
- Metacritic Critics #1642
- Metacritic Audience #799
- Criticker #551
- Douban #141
- Kinopoisk #617
- AlloCiné #574
- Trakt #863
Every rating
63–93
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 63, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 93.
See the most agreed on films →In 1989 East Germany, a young man's devoutly socialist mother falls into a coma just before the Berlin Wall falls. She awakens eight months later, and doctors warn that any shock could be fatal. To protect her, he transforms their apartment into a time capsule of the vanished GDR, orchestrating an elaborate charade to convince her that communism is still alive and well.
Details
- Director
- Wolfgang Becker
- Studio
- WDR, X Filme Creative Pool, ARTE
- Released
- 13 February 2003
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- German, English, Russian
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $4.8M
- Box office
- $79.4M
- Awards
- 15 wins, 8 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 23 →3 major awards won · 15 wins from 23 nominations across 9 ceremonies
| César Awards 2004 | Best Film from the European Union | Wolfgang Becker | Winner |
| Goya Awards 2004 | Best European Film | Wolfgang Becker | Winner |
| Berlin International Film Festival 2003 | Blue Angel | Wolfgang Becker | Winner |
| BAFTA Awards 2004 | Best Film Not in the English Language | Wolfgang Becker | Nominee |
| Golden Globes 2004 | Best Foreign Language Film | Wolfgang Becker | Nominee |
| Berlin International Film Festival 2003 | Golden Bear | Wolfgang Becker | Nominee |
| Golden Eagle Award 2004 | Best Foreign Language Film | Wolfgang Becker | Nominee |
| London Film Critics' Circle 2004 | Foreign Language Film of the Year | Wolfgang Becker | Winner |
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Berlin International Film Festival
2 nominations, 1 won
| Blue Angel | Wolfgang Becker | Winner |
| Golden Bear | Wolfgang Becker | Nominee |
César Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Film from the European Union | Wolfgang Becker | Winner |
Goya Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best European Film | Wolfgang Becker | Winner |
BAFTA Awards
1 nomination
| Best Film Not in the English Language | Wolfgang Becker | Nominee |
Golden Globes
1 nomination
| Best Foreign Language Film | Wolfgang Becker | Nominee |
German Film Award
10 nominations, 8 won
| Best Director | Wolfgang Becker | Winner |
| Best Fiction Film | Wolfgang Becker | Winner |
| Outstanding Actor | Daniel Brühl | Winner |
| Outstanding Editing | Peter R. Adam | Winner |
| Outstanding Music | Yann Tiersen | Winner |
| Outstanding Production Design | Lothar Holler | Winner |
| Outstanding Screenwriter | Bernd Lichtenberg | Winner |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor | Florian Lukas | Winner |
| Outstanding Actress | Katrin Sass | Nominee |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress | Maria Simon | Nominee |
European Film Awards
5 nominations, 3 won
| Best Actor | Daniel Brühl | Winner |
| Best Film | Wolfgang Becker | Winner |
| Best Screenwriter | Bernd Lichtenberg | Winner |
| Best Actress | Katrin Sass | Nominee |
| Best Director | Wolfgang Becker | Nominee |
London Film Critics' Circle
1 nomination, 1 won
| Foreign Language Film of the Year | Wolfgang Becker | Winner |
Golden Eagle Award
1 nomination
| Best Foreign Language Film | Wolfgang Becker | Nominee |