Looking for a comedy about the fall of East Germany

June 29, 2009 1:27 AM

Looking for a specific movie about the fall of East Germany-- a comedy (?) where the main character's mother falls into a coma, and during the interim, the Berlin wall falls...

I was in London last spring and I jumped into this movie halfway through (watching on a hotel telly)...and then fell asleep before the end. I ended up watching half of an hour of it, and I thought maybe somebody else has seen this movie.

Other clues: there may have been subtitles; it looked like it was filmed in the last decade (or two?).

posted by zhang.chuck to media & arts (4 comments total)

goodbye lenin
posted by jedrek at 1:32 AM on June 29

I would second that. The description does sound like Goodbye Lenin. My favourite scene is the coca cola banner scene.
posted by london302 at 1:36 AM on June 29

Jedrek has it, thirded.
posted by benzenedream at 1:38 AM on June 29

That's the movie I was looking for. Thank you!
posted by zhang.chuck at 2:01 AM on June 29