German Film Festival: Good Bye, Lenin!
2:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

Directed by Wolfgang Becker (2003). Before the fall of the Berlin wall, a young dissident’s pro-Communist mother slips into a coma and awakens to a world that has changed beyond recognition. Knowing the shock might kill her, he tries to keep the change a secret. A lively and poignant satire.