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| | 'Goodbye, Lenin,' Hello Humor! | Culture & Lifestyle | Deutsche Welle | 07.03.2003 |
 | | The weakened mother is made to rest in a hastily redecorated East German room, complete with pea green wallpaper and trademark old cabinets lining the wall. |
 | | Alex even manages to get an aspiring filmmaker friend to shoot editions for the Aktuelle Kamera -- the news show in East Germany -- and then promptly plays it every evening for his mother, secretly on video. |
 | | The film, both funny and bittersweet, portrays life in East Germany down to the last detail, whether it’s human relations, furniture, fashion, private or public rhetoric. |
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